The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.