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

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.

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

Pain, thou art not an evil

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

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.