“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”

“Jean Valjean opened his eyes and looked at the bishop with an expression which no human tongue can describe.”

“There are certain natures which cannot have love on one side without hatred on the other.”

“True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.”

“When a great figure passed through a city of Burgundy or Champagne, the corporation of the city turned out to deliver an address and present him with four silver goblets in which there were four wines. On the first goblet he read the inscription “monkey wine,” on the second “lion wine,” on the third “sheep wine,” on the fourth “swine wine.” These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, which enlivens; the second, which irritates; the third, which stupefies; finally the last, which brutalizes.”

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