“Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.”
“Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we are born to reach great heights”
“Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great man. Each of us can profit by it.”
“However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.”
“We are not a great manufacturing company that develops people, we are a great manufacturing company BECAUSE we develop people.”
“Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.”