God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.

One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.

Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.

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

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising