Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.