I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.