"Give to a being the useless, and..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.”

“A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.”

“Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.”

“Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor”

“There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.”

“I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.”

“It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.”

“I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.”

“I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.”