Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
Liberation is not deliverance.
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
A wedding is not house-keeping.
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.