Victor Hugo

"The supreme art of the writer is to make people cry."

"Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins."

"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it."

"Art is the right hand of Nature."

"To die is nothing, but it is terrible not to live."

"The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited."

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

"When the heart is full, the tongue is not."

"Fashion is something that exists in clothes and in ten lines of width."

"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."

"Nothing more powerful exists in the world than the written word."

"Pity is the greatest faculty."

"The mind is like a parachute; it works best when open."

"Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens."

"Progress is the mode of man."

"Patience is the ornament of the brave."

"The hungry man has no respect for the law, order, or decency."

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones."

"The supreme unhappiness of life is the conviction that we are not loved."

"Man is made flesh. Flesh is made matter. Matter is made nothingness."

"To rise and never fall takes only a breath."

"Death is a comforting thought for those who live."

"The future has several names: for the weak it is impossible; for the faint-hearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal."

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

"Money is nothing; a good name is everything."

"A child's first teacher is its mother."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"The supreme pleasure is never knowing what comes next."

"Age steals upon us, unperceived."

"There is always a way to happiness. Those who move toward it with whole-hearted devotion are bound to succeed."