Victor Hugo

"Who destroys a good book, kills reason itself."

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything."

"We are made wise not by recollection of our past, but by responsibility for our future."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."

"Misery does not consist in a lack of pleasure, but in the lack of peace."

"Have you ever stopped to consider that a friend is one who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are."

"Every man who lives has a right to live."

"Intelligence is often the servant of the will."

"The wretched and the weak inherit the earth."

"Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container."

"The greatest poverty is not material but spiritual."

"No one is dispossessed who possesses himself."

"Doubt is the key to knowledge."

"The boundary between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things."

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."

"We live in a time when time does not live in us."

"Laughter is a power which speaks to the soul."

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction we are loved for ourselves."

"There is no present or future, only the past happening over and over again, now."

"Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything."

"A man cannot think freely while he is enslaved."

"War is the sad recourse of nations to settle disputes through blood."

"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by deductive reasoning."

"Art is the flowering of truth and beauty."

"To educate is to transform, and transformation requires courage."

"When the child is born, the mother too is born."

"The wounds that honor gives are always worth the medals which brings."

"Our words are guaranteed to fail, but our actions speak volumes."