He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often... - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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

"where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?"

"This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown."

"Love is the only future God offers."

"Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine."