Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms

But that's not the name of a man, it's the name of a mountain! (...) "It is my name," Athos said calmly. "But you said your name was d'Artagnan." "I?" "Yes, you." "That is to say, someone said to me: 'You are M. d'Artagnan?' I replied: 'You think so?' My guards shouted that they were sure of it. I did not want to vex them. Besides, I might have been mistaken.