Victor Hugo — "The beautiful is as useful as the useful."

"Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being."

"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."

"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 …"

"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."

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