The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.
What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
Another story must begin!
...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.