Victor Hugo

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"The days of which the memory is keenest are those filled with grief or joy."

"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."

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

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

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

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear."

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent."

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

"Merit consists in action."

"A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness."

"No man is truly free when he depends on another's generosity."

"Wisdom is composed of prudence and justice."

"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

"There are souls which fall by irretrievable decree."

"Justice is the conscience of society."

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

"To love is to risk rejection; not to love is to risk never having lived."

"The eye of genius looks out of the world, not at it."

"Laughter is thunder born of the storm."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."

"Nature has not distributed equal gifts to all men."

"The supreme law is conscience."

"There is something in the human spirit which will survive and prevail."

"The beginning of all instruction is to be able to listen."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"History is the science of things that are no more."

"There are no incurable diseases, only incurable doctors."