We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

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

A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.