There is no greater punishment, remember, than anxiety; everything is preferable.

If you only possessed an income of ten thousand francs, I would show you a way to prove this.

I would tell you to go to Hamburg and risk your entire fortune on one chance at rouge et noir.

You could relate to me, afterwards, what your feelings were while the ball was rolling.

It is, my boy, as though your brain was being torn with pincers, as though molten lead was being poured into your bones, in place of marrow.