Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. – Victor Hugo
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. – Victor Hugo
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. – Victor Hugo
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. – Victor Hugo
What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whores lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte — there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron