Victor Hugo

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

A library implies an act of faith.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Toleration is the best religion.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

To love beauty is to see light.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.