"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

"What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant..."

"The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic."

"Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people."

"What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion if no one loved, the sun would go out."

"So you're giving up? That's it? Okay, okay. We'll leave you alone, Quasimodo. We just thought, maybe you're made up of something much stronger."

"To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do."

"Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach."

"The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced."

"This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open."

"It is by suffering that human beings become angels."

"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."

"Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter."

"Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress."

"It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory."

"I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself."

"There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit."

"A writer is a world trapped in a person."

"Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

"People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back.They know only too well that misfortune follows in their wake."

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."

"I see black light (his last words)."

"Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides."

". . .where there is no more hope, song remains."

"This cavern is below all, and the enemy of all; it is hatred, without exception."

"This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens, it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown."

"She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world:"And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you."She essayed to smile again and expired."

"To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the wind's still there, blowing away."

"Conscience is God present in man."

"What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!"

"Un sceptique qui adhA re A un croyant cela est simple comme la loi des couleurs complA©mentaires.Ce qui nous manque nous attire."

"Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man."

"There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson."

"When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar."

"He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself."

"Listen, Monsieur Director, here's what I think. Obviously this is wrong. There are twenty-six of you in five or six small rooms; there are three of us in space enough for sixty. That is wrong, I assure you. You have my house and I am in yours. Give me back mine and this will be your home."

"In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open."

"Nature like a kind and smiling mother lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies."

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come."

"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced."

"He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud."

"A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour, light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon."

"One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'"

"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."

"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life."

"Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour."

"Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?"

"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."

"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise."

"It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?"