One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

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

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Without the wetness of your love, the fragrance of your water, or the trickling sounds of your voice ― I shall always feel thirsty.

When is it too right but too wrong to be right?

If you can not do great things, Do small things in a great way.

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

It is difficult to talk about what I do, because I do it so I don't have to talk about it.

Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel.

We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident!

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.