For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.

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

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.

Misfortune does not help us to believe.

So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.