The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.