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

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

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

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

"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh."