Alexandre Dumas

Nothing succeeds like success.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.

Business? It's quite simple it's other people's money.

However anxious one is to reach one__ goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.

At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it.""It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay double and it is done directly

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.

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