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

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

Haste is a poor counselor

What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.