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.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

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

Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.