Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. – Victor Hugo
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. – Victor Hugo
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. – Victor Hugo
To love another person is to see the face of God. – Victor Hugo
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. – Victor Hugo
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. – Victor Hugo
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. – Victor Hugo
A library implies an act of faith. – Victor Hugo
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. – Victor Hugo
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. – Victor Hugo
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. – Victor Hugo
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. – Victor Hugo
Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots. – Victor Hugo
Toleration is the best religion. – Victor Hugo
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. – Victor Hugo
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. – Victor Hugo
The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate. – Victor Hugo
To love beauty is to see light. – Victor Hugo
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh. – Victor Hugo
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! – Victor Hugo
