Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom. Victor Hugo
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. Victor Hugo
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. Victor Hugo
The wretchedness of a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of all distresses, the coldest. Victor Hugo
But what is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. Victor Hugo