Victor Hugo

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

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

"Hope is the dream of a soul awake."

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."

"You can refuse to make a choice, that is still a choice."

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

"The supreme justice is only vengeance in reverse."

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."

"Teaching is a noble calling, and those who dedicate themselves to it are heroes."

"The best way to discover new lands is to have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same thing."

"Patience is the ornament of the brave."

"To be a socialist is to believe that the poor have rights."

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"The heart will always guide those whom the mind cannot."

"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life."

"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not the poverty that comes from want of money; it is poverty of ambition."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

"Prudence must not be thrown away; it must be placed on the basis of love."

"The supreme art of life is the development of character."

"A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness."

"There is a tragic clash between Truth and the World; pure undated Truth and the World which is dated and painted and bought."

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

"The supreme secret of life is knowing the value of a heart."

"Art, love, and religion are the only things worth being serious about."

"There is a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."

"Music is to the soul what gymnastics is to the body."

"The greatest deeds are not always the loudest ones."