We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.

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.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.

I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.