Quotes from Victor Hugo

Now, don't kick a dog 'cause it's only a pup!

Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and touching thing.

The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises the other; all have need of each other.

In democratic states, the only governments founded on justice, it sometimes happens that a faction usurps power; then the whole rises up, and the necessary vindication of its right may go so far as armed conflict.

There was a coffin containing a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but no one was aware of it.

Saint Augustine: 'Place your expectations in Him to whom there is no succession!

Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, was slowly bringing these two beings near each other, fully charged and all languishing with the stormy electricities of passion.

Loving is half of believing.

It is the features of the years that makes up the face of the century.

Nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness.

How often it happens, that, when a catastrophe occurs, if we inquire into the cause we find it originated through the obstinacy of one with little ability, but having full faith in his own powers.

Liberation is not deliverance. A convict may leave prison behind but not his sentence.