Quotes by : Victor Hugo

Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal....

Common sense is in spite of not the result of education.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Sin is a gravitation.

Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And do you know what he has done for....

The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags....

Sorrow is a fruit God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

If no one loved, the sun would go out.