A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Art needs no spur beyond itself.

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.