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

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

Wait and hope!

In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.