Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdo... - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"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."

"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 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."