Victor Hugo

"The greatest action is not victory in battle, but the action of a good man every day."

"All who have accomplished great things have had great aims."

"To laugh is to live."

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into."

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

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."

"He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life."

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world: an idea whose time has come."

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

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

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

"Despair is the absolute weapon of the lost."

"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."

"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."

"There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandchildren."

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

"The cave man didn't have museums, but he had art."

"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the upper."

"Curiosity is one of the very permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."

"The mind is enriched by what it receives, the heart by what it gives."

"God is in all things."

"Nine out of ten of what we suffer we create ourselves."

"Reason and love are the two pillars of all excellence."

"You should fear the man who does not fear God."

"The greatest deeds are accomplished in our daily endeavors and private lives."

"Music expresses that which cannot be said in words and that which cannot remain silent."

"If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness."

"The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; for the thoughtful and valiant, it is ideal."

"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it may never be recovered."