The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.

In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.