People do not lack strength; they lack will. Victor Hugo
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. Victor Hugo
Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Victor Hugo
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. Victor Hugo
Popularity? It’s glory’s small change. Victor Hugo
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. Victor Hugo
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. Victor Hugo
Taste is the common sense of genius. Victor Hugo
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement – in a word, with more renunciation than you care for – and so you flee the contagion. Victor Hugo