More quotes by Victor Hugo

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
"Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing."
"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."
"Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love."
"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."