I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.