Alexandre Dumas

To learn to read is to light a fire; every word spelled out is a spark.

The strongest are those who are most alone.

Happiness is like a ball; we run after it while it is rolling, and we kick it when it stops.

How can I be a good man if I don't know how to be a bad one?

There are very few people who can be trusted with a secret.

You wish to know what you are doing, and how you are living, and what your relations are to society? Why, my friend, you are living in Paris, and Paris is the world.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

It is not the eye that sees, but the soul.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

There are two ways of being happy: we may either diminish our wants or augment our means.

Man is but an ass, if he is not an eagle.

I have always been a man of my word, and my word is law.

To forgive our enemies is a charming idea; but I am not a charming person.

It is clear that the more a man has, the more he wants; and the more he wants, the more he suffers.

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

There are two conditions necessary for happiness: a good heart and a good stomach.

The human heart is a strange thing. It is capable of the greatest love and the greatest hatred.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.