"Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education."

"Fashions have done more harm than revolutions."

"Faith is necessary to men; woe to him who believes in nothing!"

"Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen."

"He loved books; books are cold but safe friends."

"Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just."

"And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you."

"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet."

"God knows better than we do what we need."

"The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten."

"Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein."

"To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live."

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

"Nobody loves the light like the blind man."

"What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another."

"...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain."

"It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life."

"Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour."

"A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off."

"This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown."

"A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking."

"Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud."

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

"Sleep comes more easily than it returns."

"Sleep comes more easily than it returns."

"It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she."

"Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing."

"England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England."

"As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat."

"Morality is truth in full bloom."

"Be happy without picking flaws."

"The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination."

"I was dying when you came."

"I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul."

"The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor."

“Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil”

“Don’t do drugs, don’t have unprotected sex, don’t be violent. Leave that to me.”

“If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something.”

“Cause sometimes, you just feel tired. Feel weak. And when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you. You gotta find that inner strength, and just pull that shit out of you. And get that motivation to NOT give up and NOT be a quitter. No matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse.”

“Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.”

“I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.”

“Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters”

“Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.”

“Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.”

“Damn. How much damage can you do with a pen?”

“Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.”

“Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.”

“I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.”

“If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.”

“I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.”