We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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.