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

“He loved to saunter through fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds nearly as much as with events.”

“God decreed that the love which came to Cosette was a love that saves.”

“Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude of mysterious means to correspond. They send each other the song of the birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. And why not? All the works of God are made to serve love. Love is sufficiently potent to charge all nature with its messages.Oh Spring! Thou art a letter that I write to her.”

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

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

“The supreme happiness of life is that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves”