Alexandre Dumas — "God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judg…"

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."

"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness…"

"Nothing is so intoxicating as the first taste of freedom."

"Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."

"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."