Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.