Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

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.

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.