So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.