Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables