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

"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope."

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

"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 am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride."

"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."