The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
Victor HugoThere is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.
Victor HugoThe beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a momentโs silence, "Perhaps more so.
Victor HugoWhen I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
Victor HugoWhen God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor HugoThese Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.
Victor Hugo