It is only the dead who do not return.

Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

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

Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which is the sequence to hope; then he began to doubt his own innocence, which justified in some measure the governor's belief in his mental alienation; and then, relaxing his sentiment of pride, he addressed his supplications, not to God, but to man. God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!