...but My Friends Call Me Edmund Dantes.

Every Individual, From The Highest To The Lowest Degree, Has His Place In The Ladder Of Social Life, And Around Him Swirls A Little World Of Interests, Composed Of Stormy Passions And Conflicting Atoms

In Prosperity Prayers Seem But A Mere Medley Of Words, Until Misfortune Comes And The Unhappy Sufferer First Understands The Meaning Of The Sublime Language In Which He Invokes The Pity Of Heaven!

We Are Always In A Hurry To Be Happy...; For When We Have Suffered A Long Time, We Have Great Difficulty In Believing In Good Fortune.

The Custom And Fashion Of Today Will Be The Awkwardness And Outrage Of Tomorrow - So Arbitrary Are These Transient Laws.

To Learn Is Not To Know; There Are The Learners And The Learned. Memory Makes The One, Philosophy The Others.