In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God

For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.

Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.

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