Victor Hugo quotes
"If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away."
"Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."
"He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign."
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour."
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."
"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
"What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!"
"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart."
