Victor Hugo
45 quotations
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
Progress is the stride of God.
Toleration is the best religion.
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Loving is half of believing.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
He does not weep who does not see.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.