Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Victor Hugo

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
Victor Hugo

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
Victor Hugo

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Victor Hugo

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Victor Hugo

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Victor Hugo

Conscience is God present in man.
Victor Hugo

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor Hugo

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo

Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
Victor Hugo

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor Hugo

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Victor Hugo

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
Victor Hugo

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
Victor Hugo

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Victor Hugo

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo