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

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”

“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”

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

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

“Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.”

“MY GOD!' read Monte Cristo, 'LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY!”