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.

Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.

True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.