Victor Hugo quotes.

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”

“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”

“People do not lack strength they lack will.”

“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.”

“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”

“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”

“I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!”

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

“There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”

“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”

“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”