Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
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.
The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.