“It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.”

“To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.”

“My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.”

"The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor."

"I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul."

"I was dying when you came."

"The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination."

"Be happy without picking flaws."

"Morality is truth in full bloom."

"As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat."

"England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England."

"Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing."

"It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she."

"Sleep comes more easily than it returns."

"Sleep comes more easily than it returns."

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

"Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud."

"A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking."

"This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown."

"A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off."

"Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour."

"It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life."

"...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain."

"What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another."