Victor Hugo Quotes

To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

What a grand thing, to be loved What a grander thing still, to love

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Popularity It is glory's small change.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.