This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself i... - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"...Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered royalty, which is authority based on falsehood, whereas science is authority based on truth. Man should be governed by science alone.""And conscience,"added the bishop."It's the same thing. Conscience is the quota of innate science we each have inside us."

"Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine."

"Those who do not weep, do not see."

"Be happy without picking flaws."

"If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring."