I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul. – Victor Hugo
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. – Victor Hugo
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. – Victor Hugo
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. – Victor Hugo
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. – Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. – Victor Hugo
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. – Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo
Many great actions are committed in small struggles. – Victor Hugo
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. – Victor Hugo
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. – Victor Hugo
The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. – Victor Hugo
A great artist is a great man in a great child. – Victor Hugo
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. – Victor Hugo
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides. – Victor Hugo
Conscience is God present in man. – Victor Hugo
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. – Victor Hugo
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. – Victor Hugo
To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. – Victor Hugo
