Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment. — Victor Hugo Boredom Copy Share Image
“The soul falls into contemplation before this sanctuary, where the celebration of love is held.” — Victor Hugo Celebration Copy Share Image
My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers. — Victor Hugo Farmers Copy Share Image
“No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.” — Victor Hugo Priest Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He had a small but well stocked library. He loved books; books are a remote but reliable friend.” — Victor Hugo Book Copy Share Image
“Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great man. Each of us can profit… — Victor Hugo Good man Copy Share Image
“Then live your life, above all things. Make use of your I while you have it.” — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing… — Victor Hugo Approach Copy Share Image
“In short, between men and women you want..." "Equality." "Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures." "I… — Victor Hugo Equality Copy Share Image
“True or false, what is said about people often has as much bearing on their lives and especially on their destinies as… — Victor Hugo Greatness Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or moreover, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo Faith Copy Share Image
“and the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which… — Victor Hugo Convention Copy Share Image
“The faults of women, children, and servants, of the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the faults of their husbands, fathers,… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards… — Victor Hugo London Copy Share Image
“They fathomed principle; they attached themselves to right. They longed for the absolute, they caught glimpses of the infinite realisations; the absolute,… — Victor Hugo Dreams Copy Share Image
“As for us, we who do not believe what these women believe, but live like them by faith, never could look without… — Victor Hugo Faith Copy Share Image
“Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect on. At… — Victor Hugo Garden Copy Share Image
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“What astonished me greatly was, that though he believed that he was under sentence of death, he made no effort to avail… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For… — Victor Hugo Awakening Copy Share Image
“Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the… — Victor Hugo Christ Copy Share Image
