One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
Victor HugoWhen two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
Victor HugoIt is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
Victor HugoThere are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
Victor Hugo