I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —

Order is the key to all problems.

I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.

The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

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.

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

Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.