So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

But that's not the name of a man, it's the name of a mountain! (...) "It is my name," Athos said calmly. "But you said your name was d'Artagnan." "I?" "Yes, you." "That is to say, someone said to me: 'You are M. d'Artagnan?' I replied: 'You think so?' My guards shouted that they were sure of it. I did not want to vex them. Besides, I might have been mistaken.