When liberty returns, I will return.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.