More quotes by Victor Hugo

"Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love."
"To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better."
"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."
"The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness."
"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."