Victor Hugo

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

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

"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh."

"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."

"A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."À qui la faute? (1872)"

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

"The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness."

"More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

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

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

"Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing."

"I see black light (his last words)"

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

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