When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures o... - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"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."

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

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

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

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