“You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.”

“When you are in doubt as to which you should serve forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle for this is everything.”

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.”

“What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?""Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.”

“Oh Heaven! You sometimes bear with such injustice on earth, that I understand why there are wretches who doubt in your existence.”

“D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself?Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.”

“I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.”