Victor Hugo — "No army can stop an idea whose time has come."

"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."

"There are no such things as small countries. The greatness of a people is no more determined by the number of its inhabitants than the greatness of a man is determined by his height."

"The human soul has 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."

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

"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 …"