One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.