With Cosette’s garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would call him Nestor.

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a sp…”

“The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "…”

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. An…”

“Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty …”