A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
Victor HugoChange your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor HugoA day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
Victor HugoA benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.
Victor Hugo