• "The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."
• "Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
• "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing o...

• "Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her. Still, she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings."
• "Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise."
• "Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
• "The fu...

• "A study can be made against invasion by an army. No stand can be made against invasion by an idea."
• "An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."
• "He who opens a school door closes a prison."
• "If you wish to understand what revolution is, call it prog...

Victor HugoRomantic movement

• "A great artist is a great man in a great child."
• "A mother's arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them."
• "Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men."
• "Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
• "When...