To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. – Victor Hugo
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor – Victor Hugo
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. – Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. – Victor Hugo