Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy. - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"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."

"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."

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

"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."