Victor Hugo

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

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

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

"To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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"

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

"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)"

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

"Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives."

"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."

"I see black light (his last words)"

"A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon."