A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.

What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.