Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Be happy without picking flaws.

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.

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.