To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

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

Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.