"The greatest happiness of life is the..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.”

“Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.”

“We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.”

“Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.”

“Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.”

“We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.”

“Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.”

“In this earth,in this immaculate field,we shall not plant any seedsexcept for compassion,except for love.”

“This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.”