Victor 
Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers.
Born: February 26, 1802, Besançon, France
Died: May 22, 1885, Paris, France
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
People do not lack strength, they lack will.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!
Those who do not weep, do not see.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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.God is awake.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Toleration is the best religion.
Reaction – a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Habit is the nursery of errors.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
No one can keep a secret better than a child.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
