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

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

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

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.

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.