It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor HugoA day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
Victor HugoIf the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.
Victor HugoThere have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Victor HugoSlowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing.
Victor Hugo