He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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.

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.