You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He therefore turned to mankind only with regret. His cathedral was enough for him. It was peopled with marble figures of kings,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. — 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
“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
