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

The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!

In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.

Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)