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...
The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope. ~Edmond Dantes
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
Starvation! exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find s...
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: Li...
Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. My captivity concentrated all my faculties on a single point. They had pr...
It was clear that Mme Danglars was suffering from one of those nervous irritations which women are often unable to explain even to themselves.
Il mio regno è grande come il mondo, perché non sono né italiano né francese né indiano né americano né spagnolo: io sono cosmopolita. Nessun paese può dire di avermi visto nascere; Dio solo sa quale...
I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.''Do you mean to say that if I left you---''I'd die, yes.''Then you love me?
I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred ve...
D'Artagnan ran home immediately, and although it was three o'clock in the morning and he had some of the worst quarters of Paris to traverse, he met with no misadventure. Everyone knows that drunkards...
Il n'y a ni bonheur ne malheur en ce monde, il y a la comparaison d'un etat a un autre, voila tout.
Let us call on M. de Monte Cristo; he is admirably adapted to revive one's spirits, because he never interrogates, and in my opinion those who ask no questions are the best comforters.
What is offered from a generous heart should be accepted generously.
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.