He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Quote by Victor Hugo

Topics: Victor Hugo Quotes

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ;...

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ;...

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must...

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must...

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are...

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are...

The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in...

The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in...

Genius: the superhuman in man.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself....

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself....

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving...

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving...

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future

There is nothing like a dream to create the future

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her,...

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her,...

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more...

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more...

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought...

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought...

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it....

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it....

Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time...

Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time...

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that....

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that....

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages