More quotes by Victor Hugo

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
"The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness."
"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."
"Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love."
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."