Quotes from Victor Hugo

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

For the heart, too, has its hunger.

Forty is the old age of youth while fifty is the youth of old age.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.

Popularity It is glory's small change.

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation.

Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables)

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.

What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.