Victor Hugo

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live."

"I see black light (his last words)"

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