To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.