Victor Hugo

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

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant…

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the…

There is nothing like a dream to create the future…

A war between Europeans is a civil war…

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

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time…

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men…

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must…

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters…

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body…

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

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest…

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon…

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil…