If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.