Victor Hugo “A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. ”
Victor Hugo “An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. ”
Victor Hugo “In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these'a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven. ”
Victor Hugo “Sorrow is a fruit: God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. ”
Victor Hugo “There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. ”
Victor Hugo “There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ”
Victor Hugo “Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. ”