More quotes by Victor Hugo

"To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better."
"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
"Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing."
"Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education."