It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

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!

"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.

To love another person is to see the face of God.