Man upon this earth must expect everything, and ought to face everything.
Nothing succeeds like success.
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they...
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering i...
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang… !
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, be...
I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.
Rien n'est plus courageux qu'un cœur patient.
Paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.
For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully through the whole scale of tones, from mortal speech, upwards to the language of heaven.
Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectl...
The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.
I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.
True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer.
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
He pointed out to him the bearings of the coast, explained to him the variations of the compass, and taught him to read in that vast book opened over our heads which they call heaven, and where God wr...
Man does not steal, he conquers
Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure.
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.