In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.

Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

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