Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
A library implies an act of faith.
He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.