Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo