The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
Victor Hugo

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
Victor Hugo

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Victor Hugo

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
Victor Hugo

Those who live are those who fight.
Victor Hugo

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor Hugo

To contemplate is to look at shadows.
Victor Hugo

To 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 Hugo

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Victor Hugo

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

To love beauty is to see light.
Victor Hugo

To love is to act.
Victor Hugo