We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

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.

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.