Victor Hugo

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.

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.

Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

Love is the only future God offers.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.