Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.

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

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

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.

The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.