Victor Hugo

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter…

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor…

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man…

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

Toleration is the best religion…

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the…

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent…

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

Wisdom is a sacred communion…

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

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol…

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves…

He who opens a school door, closes a prison…

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

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and…