“God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.”

“God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.”

“Forward! Still forward!" said he. "When it shall be time, God will tell me, as he has told the others.”

“If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. ”

“A man is held to be criminal,sometimes, by the great ones of the earth,not because he has committed a crime himself but because he knows of one which has been committed.”

“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.”

“God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.”