Edmond Dantes: I Don't Believe In God.

Love Is The Most Selfish Of All The Passions.

Philosophy Cannot Be Taught; It Is The Application Of The Sciences To Truth.

That Englishman Who Came To Challenge Me Three Or Four Months Ago, And Whom I Killed To Stop Him Bothering Me

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!

Dantes Passed Through All The Stages Of Torture Natural To Prisoners In Suspense. He Was Sustained At First By That Pride Of Conscious Innocence Which Is The Sequence To Hope; Then He Began To Doubt His Own Innocence, Which Justified In Some Measure The Governor's Belief In His Mental Alienation; And Then, Relaxing His Sentiment Of Pride, He Addressed His Supplications, Not To God, But To Man. God Is Always The Last Resource. Unfortunates, Who Ought To Begin With God, Do Not Have Any Hope In Him Till They Have Exhausted All Other Means Of Deliverance.