imprisonment Quotes

“What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?”

“Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse”

“God has sent you to me to console, at one and the same time, the man who could not be a father, and the prisoner who could not get free.”

A bolt grated and Danglars was a prisoner. If there had been no bolt, it would have been impossible for him to pass through the midst of the garrison who held the catacombs of St. Sebastian, encamped round a master whom our readers must have recognized as the famous Luigi Vampa.

“If you knowed, dear boy,” he said to me, “what it is to sit here alonger my dear boy and have my smoke, arter having been day by day betwixt four walls, you’d envy me. But you don’t know what it is.”