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.

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time

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.

One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.

Order is the key to all problems.

You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.