To learn to read is to light a fire.
Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables