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

“The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.”

“He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.”

“There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.”

“where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?”