I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.

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

True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.

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

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.