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

Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

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

...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.

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