“I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things...”

“Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".”

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

“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”

“What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!”

“I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.”

“I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.”