This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.