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".

Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

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

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.

I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.