Victor Hugo Quotes
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution.
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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.
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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
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Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.
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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
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The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.