He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
Victor HugoThe mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor HugoThe Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!
Victor HugoDiamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
Victor Hugo