Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.
His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d’Artagnan her husband – such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!
God is always the last resource.
In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange –.
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- “Wait and hope”?
I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.