The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow.”

He who has not been a stubborn accuser in prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin.

If nature calls itself Providence, society should call itself foresight.

We women are not cowards. We think, and we wait, and we work; and sometimes our waiting and our working save lives, though we do not go out with swords. If there is darkness, let me be of use in it, for courage is not only a man’s.

Hatred is blind, rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

I am he whom you sold and dishonored—I am he whose betrothed you prostituted—I am he upon whom you trampled that you might raise yourself to fortune—I am he whose father you condemned to die of hunger—I am he whom you also condemned to starvation, and who yet forgives you, because he hopes to be forgiven—I am Edmond Dantès!

I am not cruel, only just; I do unto others what they have done unto me.

Men are not to be judged by the face they show in society, but by the face they show to misfortune.

I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces, and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me? You would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment—as well as the prison.

I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed.