Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sc... - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"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."

"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."

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

"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."