If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo

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

...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.

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

So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.

Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.