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

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

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

"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."

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

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