There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Victor Hugo...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
Victor HugoWas it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!
Victor Hugo