Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me. D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box. D'Artagnan: Bring your own... Porthos: [laughs]

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

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

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when 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.