Victor Hugo Quotes
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.
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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls.
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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.
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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
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Right is right only when entire.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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Progress is the stride of God.
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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
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When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.
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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.
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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.
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If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.
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In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.
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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!