It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

But that's not the name of a man, it's the name of a mountain! (...) "It is my name," Athos said calmly. "But you said your name was d'Artagnan." "I?" "Yes, you." "That is to say, someone said to me: 'You are M. d'Artagnan?' I replied: 'You think so?' My guards shouted that they were sure of it. I did not want to vex them. Besides, I might have been mistaken.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.