...but My Friends Call Me Edmund Dantes.

Perhaps What I Am About To Say Will Appear Strange To You Gentlemen, Socialists, Progressives, Humanitarians As You Are, But I Never Worry About My Neighbor, I Never Try To Protect Society Which Does Not Protect Me -- Indeed, I Might Add, Which Generally Takes No Heed Of Me Except To Do Me Harm -- And, Since I Hold Them Low In My Esteem And Remain Neutral Towards Them, I Believe That Society And My Neighbor Are In My Debt.

Women Are Never So Strong As After Their Defeat.

Capricious And Unfaithful, The King Wished To Be Called Louis The Just And Louis The Chaste. Posterity Will Find A Difficulty In Understanding This Character, Which History Explains Only By Facts And Never By Reason.

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.

The Hungry Men Were Seen, Followed By Their Valets, Roaming The Quais And Guards' Quarters; Gleaning From Their Outside Friends All The Dinners They Could Find; For, According To Aramis, In Prosperity One Should Sow Meals Right And Left, In Order To Harvest Some In Adversity.