God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

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

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.