Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

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.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.