“Right is just and true.”

“These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps”

“This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.”

“Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injustice. Should I spare myself more than others? No. What! if I should be prompt only to punish others and not myself, I should be a wretched indeed! - Javert to M. Madeleine”

“What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.”

“The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure.”

“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.”