Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

- Victor Hugo

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

- Victor Hugo

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

- Victor Hugo

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

- Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

- Victor Hugo

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

- Victor Hugo

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

- Victor Hugo

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

- Victor Hugo

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

- Victor Hugo

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

- Victor Hugo