Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.
Victor HugoThere is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.
Victor HugoThere is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
Victor Hugo