Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

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.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.