Not being heard is no reason for silence. - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown."

"You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it."

"If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring."

"Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

"Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine."