“Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.”

“where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.”

“M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.”

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”

“There are instincts which respond to all the chance meetings in life. The little girl was not afraid.”

“Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch at some sullen or ill-constituted mind, which is dreaming in a corner, and sets to work to examine society. The examination of hatred is a terrible thing.”

“The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.”