No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? — do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?

In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." [...] He believes in you.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

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.