There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
fromLes MisérablesbyVictor HugoIf you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.
fromLes MisérablesbyVictor HugoAs conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the whole human race. And what is the revolution that we shall cause? the Revolution of the True.
fromLes MisérablesbyVictor HugoBe comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds; and if you wait a little, the wind will shift, and the moon will look out, and you will see that you were walking straight all the while, though you thought you had lost the road.
fromLittle WomenbyLouisa May AlcottBe worthy, love, and love will come; for it is not won by clamors, nor bought with gold, but grows like a flower where there is light and warmth, and dies if foolish hands pluck at it in haste, or shut it up in a dark place to be kept.
fromLittle WomenbyLouisa May AlcottWatch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.
fromLittle WomenbyLouisa May AlcottNo man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be; the very light seems to wash the brain clean, as if thought itself had been stained by the dark.
fromDraculabyBram Stoker“What is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”
fromAlice’s Adventures in WonderlandbyLewis CarrollFor, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
fromAlice’s Adventures in WonderlandbyLewis CarrollHappiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach.
fromThe Count of Monte CristobyAlexandre DumasAll human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—‘Wait and hope.’
fromThe Count of Monte CristobyAlexandre DumasHe suddenly recalled Sonia’s words, ‘Go to the cross-roads, bow down to the people, kiss the earth… and say aloud to the whole world, I am a murderer.’ … It came over him like a fit… He fell to the earth on the spot…. He knelt down… and kissed that filthy earth with bliss and rapture.
fromCrime and PunishmentbyFyodor Dostoevsky