It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
To love and be loved, that is the miracle of youth
This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding further; one persists, it...
There is M. Geborand purchasing paradise for a sou.
The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.
Light renders healthy.
It is nothing to die. It is dreadful not to live.
In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness, r...
If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
Errors make excellent projectiles.
The child watched its disappearance--he was astounded but dreamy. His stupefaction was complicated by a sense of the dark reality of existence. It seemed as if there were experience in this dawning be...
God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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.
Y la memoria es el tormento de los celosos
Whatever To-day may be, To-morrow will be peace.