Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

Love is a fault; so be it.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.