“Return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows.”

“Listen,' said Morrel; 'it is not the first time you have contemplated our present position, which is a serious and urgent one; I do not think it is a moment to give way to useless sorrow; leave that for those who like to suffer at their leisure and indulge their grief in secret. There are such in the world, and God will doubtless reward them in heaven for their resignation on earth, but those who mean to contend must not lose one precious moment, but must return immediately the blow which fortune strikes. Do you intend to struggle against our ill-fortune?..”

“Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.”

“Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.”

“...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.”

“It is only the dead who do not return.”

“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”