If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
VICTOR HUGOIf you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
VICTOR HUGODuring a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
VICTOR HUGOToleration is the best religion.
VICTOR HUGOThe power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
VICTOR HUGOLife’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
VICTOR HUGOThose who do not weep, do not see.
VICTOR HUGOWhen love has fused and mingled two beings in sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned.
VICTOR HUGOWhat Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul
VICTOR HUGOHave courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
VICTOR HUGONo army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGOIf I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
VICTOR HUGOA man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
VICTOR HUGOTo give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
VICTOR HUGOCaution is the eldest child of wisdom.
VICTOR HUGOIt is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
VICTOR HUGOReality in strong doses frightens.
VICTOR HUGO