Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

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

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.

Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

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