The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity. Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends Victor Hugo book There shall be no slavery of the mind. Victor Hugo slavery atheism mind Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. Victor Hugo dear-god beauty art The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity. Victor Hugo thirst infinite infinity In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men. Victor Hugo animal men world Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can. Victor Hugo pain wisdom men Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. Victor Hugo meter charm queens Love is reducing the universe to one being. Victor Hugo reducing universe love-is What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do. Victor Hugo destiny influence men He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. Victor Hugo labyrinth time morning Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish. Victor Hugo sparks soul fire Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven. Victor Hugo sweet profound heaven One cannot resist an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo ideas Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light. Victor Hugo light beautiful night If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light. Victor Hugo light eye children One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. Victor Hugo eye work thinking Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns. Victor Hugo return light instruction If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground. Victor Hugo castles-in-the-air castles air Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. Victor Hugo idleness oppression wisdom When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Victor Hugo sight men long
