The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?

That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.