Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any h... - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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

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

"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."

"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."

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