"Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they ar…"

"Private misfortunes must never induce us to neglect business."

"How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter w…"

"There is … a clever maxim which bears upon what I was saying to you some little while ago, and that is, that unless w…"

"You must teach me a small part of what you know," said Dantes, "if only to prevent your growing weary of me. I can we…"

"The patron of The Young Amelia proposed as a place of landing the Island of Monte Cristo, which being completely dese…"

"And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good…"

"You have, then, not forgotten that I saved your life; that is strange, for it is a week ago."

"“No, monsieur,” returned Monte Cristo “upon the simple condition that they should respect myself and my friends. Perh…"

"We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them grat…"