Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

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

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

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.