Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope."

"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."

"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope."

"For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God."

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

"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."

"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."

"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."

"I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."

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

"Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather."

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

"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope."

"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."

"I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."

"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever."

"Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather."

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