“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

“I'm not proud, but I'm happy, and I think happiness makes a man even blinder than pride.”

“Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.”

“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

“Yes; I am a supercargo; pen, ink, and paper are my tools, and without my tools I am fit for nothing.”

“No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo”

“I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange — ”