“Monseigneur, although you turn every thing to use, here is an unemployed plot. It would be better to have lettuces there than bouquets.”
“Madame Magloire,” the bishop answered, “you are mistaken; the beautiful is as useful as the useful.” He added, after a moment’s silence, “More so, perhaps.”
- Les Miserables pg. 24
“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
