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."

"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 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."

"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in 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."