Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.

God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.

Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.

Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible - utterly impossible!