Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity. Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Victor Hugo sight men long You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo lonely kindness love-is God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger. Victor Hugo cat giving men She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood. Victor Hugo stones heart might The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest. Victor Hugo left-handed inconvenient left Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. Victor Hugo lasts profound firsts There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. Victor Hugo love father children Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. Victor Hugo wisdom men children . . .where there is no more hope, song remains. Victor Hugo remains song Habit is the nursery of errors. Victor Hugo nursery learning errors There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. Victor Hugo strength time peace Taste is the common sense of genius. Victor Hugo common-sense genius wisdom A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables Victor Hugo girl unhappy children The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. Victor Hugo real wisdom drama Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again. Victor Hugo body soul trying When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar. Victor Hugo destiny wings two Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price. Victor Hugo rich educate children There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo wisdom sea sky by making himself a priest made himself a demon. Victor Hugo demon priests made Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo music wisdom art