Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“You were able to wait,' said Dantes, sighing. 'Your long labor gave you a constant occupation, and when you didn't have your… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Come now, be a man!' he thought. 'We are used to adversity; let's not be crushed by a mere disappointment, or else… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“What is the sense in recriminations about things over which the will of God itself is powerless? God can change the future, He cannot… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"? — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“when you have the honour to find yourself in the company of ordinary men and the good fortune to be out of politics for… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“He rose in his turn, and seizing handfuls of confetti and sweetmeats, with which the carriage was filled, cast them with all the force… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen," said Buckingham; "the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image