I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and... - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"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."

"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."