It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life. — Victor Hugo Book Copy Share Image
Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“To learn to read is to light a fire;every syllable spelled out is a spark.” — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is a prospect greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and… — Victor Hugo Human soul Copy Share Image
Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was… — Victor Hugo Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
“In the English-speaking world his best-known works are often the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (sometimes translated into English as… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He endeavored to collect his thoughts, but did not succeed. At those hours especially when we have sorest need of grasping the… — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night… — Victor Hugo Clouds and stars Copy Share Image
“The soul of a young girl should not be left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too… — Victor Hugo Dark Copy Share Image
Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the next, that good can… — Victor Hugo Evil Copy Share Image
“Certainly we talk to ourselves; there is no thinking being who has not experienced that. One could even say that the word… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must… — Victor Hugo Atheism Copy Share Image
“Then, with the barricades complete, the posts assigned, the muskets loaded, the lookouts placed, alone in these fearful streets in which there… — Victor Hugo Fear Copy Share Image
Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark. To diminish the number of the dark, to increase the… — Victor Hugo Enlightenment Copy Share Image
