Victor Hugo

To give thanks in solitude is
enough.  Thanksgiving has wings
and goes where it must go.  Your
prayer knows much more about it
than you do.

Victor Hugo

A man is not idle because he is
absorbed in thought.  There is a
visible labor and there is an
invisible labor

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

Ideas can no more flow backward
than can a river.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

How did it happen that their lips
came together? How does it happen
that birds sing, that snow melts,
that the rose unfolds, that the
dawn whitens behind the stark
shapes of trees on the quivering
summit of the hill? A kiss, and
all was said.

Victor Hugo

What a gloomy thing, not to know
the address of one's soul.

Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than
all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has
come.

Victor Hugo

When grace is joined with wrinkles,
it is adorable. There is an
unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Victor Hugo

A man is not idle because he is
absorbed in thought. There is a
visible labor and there is an
invisible labor.

Victor Hugo