It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising

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

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

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

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

Misfortune does not help us to believe.

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