As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere. Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament. Victor Hugo blackcloudsnight What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. Victor Hugo gardennaturebeauty He who despairs is wrong. Victor Hugo despair When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything. Victor Hugo ideas Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! Victor Hugo blessedmenchildren Not being heard is no reason for silence. Victor Hugo les-missilenceinspiring The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage. Victor Hugo cagessoulbird Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection. Victor Hugo wisdomperfectionpeople Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men Victor Hugo angry-mansongmen No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature. Victor Hugo natureanimalmen And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness. Victor Hugo girllovemen If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring. Victor Hugo would-bespringpeople Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. Victor Hugo wisdomletting-gochildren A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. Victor Hugo slave-ownersdebtorsdignity Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision? Victor Hugo telescopesmicroscopesvision To think of shadows is a serious thing. Victor Hugo serious-thingsshadowthinking The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. Victor Hugo true-lovepowerfullove The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. Victor Hugo envywickedhate Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry. Victor Hugo magnificenceheavenscience Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad. Victor Hugo madsciencebelieve
