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

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

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.

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

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.