"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.