“To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration... If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm you.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Those who are ignorant should be taught all you can teach them; society is to blame for not providing free public education;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He was indulgent to women and to the poor, oppressed by the weight of society. "The faults of women, children, and servants,"… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Let us never weary of repeating, that to think first of the disinherited and sorrowful classes; to relieve, ventilate, enlighten, and love… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and of Michael… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
