Victor Hugo

When you have to deal with a man, you have to deal with his whole history.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

The mind is a strange thing. It is a house with many rooms, and some of them are dark.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

Forty years is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The soul atrophies if it is not nourished by a great love.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Popularity is the applause of the mob. Genius is the applause of the ages.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end sees light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the soul. It is an ardent, celestial, inextinguishable flame.

There are no such things as small countries. All countries are great through the role they play in the history of mankind.

To die is nothing; but to live is dreadful.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved.

There is more in the small than in the great.