Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. "In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".

......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

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

In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.