Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

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.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.