By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

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

The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.