Victor Hugo

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Ponder well on this: the creative power of the mind is infinite.

To die for an idea; it is to make it immortal.

The human heart is a marvelous thing; it is capable of loving many times, and each time as if it were the first.

The beautiful is always eccentric.

I am the word, I am the book, I am the Bible.

The octopus is the sea's spider.

I have a horror of being photographed. I feel as though the camera is stealing my soul.

The stomach is the true seat of intelligence.

I sleep with my eyes open.

As the cat said to the rat, 'Don't make me laugh!'

When a man is in love, he is hardly a good judge of anything.

Life is a voyage. A ship is not built for a harbor.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

The mind of a man is a strange thing, a mysterious thing, a thing that dreams.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the faint-hearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and the valiant, it is the ideal.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end swallows up the light. The human soul is a pupil which dilates in suffering and in the end swallows up God.

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.