You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.

Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.

True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.