One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.

One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.