Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to m... - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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

"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."

"Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather."

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

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