It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.