Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?
Alexandre DumasTo learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
Alexandre DumasIt was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
Alexandre DumasWhat 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.
Alexandre Dumas