Victor Hugo

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful…

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ…

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

A great artist is a great man in a great child…

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His…

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the…

Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age…

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself…

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to…

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence…

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions…

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived…

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery…

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are…

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them…