Quotes by Victor Hugo

Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called...

#Art, #Progress

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out...

#Reading

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It...

#Ideals, #Living, #Reality

No one keeps a secret so well as a child

#Secrets

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs

#Chance, #Slavery, #Tyranny

Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially...

#Humility, #Love, #Service

He does not weep who does not see

#Tears

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

#Thought

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy...

#Humanity, #World

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to...

#Sorrow

I'm religiously opposed to religion

#Religion

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

#Shyness