To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Victor Hugo

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
Victor Hugo

To think of shadows is a serious thing.
Victor Hugo

Toleration is the best religion.
Victor Hugo

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Victor Hugo

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor Hugo

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Victor Hugo

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Victor Hugo

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Victor Hugo

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo

When liberty returns, I will return.
Victor Hugo

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor Hugo

Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Victor Hugo