Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

The true artist can only labor con amore.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.