Misfortune Does Not Help Us To Believe.

Often We Pass Beside Happiness Without Seeing It, Without Looking At It, Or Even If We Have Seen And Looked At It, Without Recognizing It.

No, I Slept As I Always Do When I Am Bored And Have Not The Courage To Amuse Myself, Or When I Am Hungry And Have Not The Desire To Eat.--the Count Of Monte Cristo

Misfortune Does Not Help Us To Believe.

In Business, Sir, One Has No Friends, Only Correspondents.

Are There Not Some Places Where We Seem To Breathe Sadness? — Why, We Cannot Tell. It Is A Chain Of Recollections — An Idea Which Carries You Back To Other Times, To Other Places — Which, Very Likely, Have No Connection With The Present Time And Place.