"In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.”

“Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.”

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

“Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.”

“He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.”

“If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.”

“In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.”

“He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.”

“The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.”