"The earth is a great piece of..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.”

“Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.”

“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”

“He who laughs last didn't get it in the first place.”

“Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.”

“Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”

“Noble be man,Helpful and good!For that aloneSets him apartFrom every other creatureOn earth.”

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”

“Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.”