Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.