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

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

"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."

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

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