Victor Hugo

At intervals can be seen a glimpse of truth, that daylight of the human soul.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

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

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Are you afraid of the good you might do?

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

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

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

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

To love beauty is to see light.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

He who does not weep does not see.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.