The Count of Monte Cristo

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"'Seek whom the crime will profit,' says an axiom of jurisprudence."

"Doctor," cried Villefort, "alas, doctor, how often has man's justice
been deceived by those fatal words. I know not why, but I feel that this
crime"--

"You acknowledge, then, the existence of the crime?"

"Yes, I see too plainly that it does exist. But it seems that it is
intended to affect me personally. I fear an attack myself, after all
these disasters."

"Oh, man," murmured d'Avrigny, "the most selfish of all animals, the
most personal of all creatures, who believes the earth turns, the sun
shines, and death strikes for him alone,--an ant cursing God from the
top of a blade of grass! And have those who have lost their lives lost
nothing?--M. de Saint-Meran, Madame de Saint-Meran, M. Noirtier"--