It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." [...] He believes in you.

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

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.

What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.