Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

Loving is half of believing.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.