At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry

He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

I was dying when you came.

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.