Victor Hugo

The word 'love' is not a verb, it's a noun. It is a state of being.

Civilization is a disease.

Change your opinions, keep your principles.

Conscience is God present in man.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings fell in love because they looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

The birds of the sky are for the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea are for the fish of the sea.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad cultivators.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

The human soul has an appetite for the truth.

The greatest masterpieces are those that contain the most ideas.

Life is a voyage. Death is a port.

If a man has a hundred cents, and spends ninety-nine, he is a fool. If he has a hundred cents and spends a hundred, he is a wise man.

The rich man has his caviar, the poor man has his bread. The rich man has his fine wines, the poor man has his water. But both have the sun.

Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

There are no bad herbs or bad men; there are only bad cultivators.

The human soul is a divine tree of which the fruits are good and evil.