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.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.