Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

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.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.