I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I thin... - 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."

"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."

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

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

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