Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.