Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.
Cosette, in her seclusion, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, was slowly bringing these two beings near each other, fully charged and all...
Common right is nought but the protection of all radiating over the right of each. This protection of all is termed Fraternity. The point of intersection of all these aggregated sovereignties is calle...
Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
Be happy without picking flaws.
At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, plan...
Asociad estas dos ideas, París y la infancia, que contienen la una todo el fuego, la otra toda la aurora; haced que choquen estas dos chispas, y el resultado es un pequeño ser.
As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later, the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
Aquí el hombre se convierte en dragón. Tener hambre, tener sed es el punto de partida, ser Satanás es el punto de llegada.
An army is a strange masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite humanity, explained.
A torch-flame resembles the wisdom of cowards: it gives a poor light because it trembles.
It is God who makes woman beautiful it is the devil who makes her pretty.
Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
There are many lovely women but no perfect ones.
If you would civilize a man begin with his grandmother.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.