In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.