The Count of Monte Cristo

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

I have never been so proud of my name as when I can say that it belongs to a man who has done no wrong.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another.

All human wisdom is contained in these two words — Wait and Hope.

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.

Until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words: 'Wait and hope.'