It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. - Victor Hugo

"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."

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

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

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

"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"