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

But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

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 came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.