No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
God knows better than we do what we need.
We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.