No one can keep a secret better than a child.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

Revolution is the larva of civilization.