(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. "In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".

It is only the dead who do not return.

(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.

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.