The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas...

Can we account for instinct?’ said Monte Cristo. ‘Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries...

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of...

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

And now,’ said the unknown, ‘farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven’s substitute to recompense the good – now the god of vengeance yields...

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

Oh, yes, yes, I bless you in my own name, and in the name of three generations of irreproachable men, who say through me, “The edifice which misfortune has destroyed, Providence may build up again.”...

Enough,’ said Mercedes, ‘enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the only one to comprehend you. And had she crossed your path, and you had crushed her like a frail...

Look, look,’ cried the count, seizing the young man’s hands – “look, for on my soul it is curious. Here is a man who had resigned himself to his fate, who was going to the...

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