Alexander Dumas

"You do not speak affectionately to me, Benedetto, my old friend, that is not right—take care, or I may become troublesome.

"Eh? the thing is simple enough. You who are in power have only the means that money produces—we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts."

"Eh? the thing is simple enough. You who are in power have only the means that money produces—we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts."

all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—'Wait and hope.

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

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.

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.

For all evils there are two remedies—time and silence.

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