Victor Hugo

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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"

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

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

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

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

"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet."

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

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

"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)"

"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."

"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."

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

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

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