"To know how to distinguish the agitation..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.”

“...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.”

“Those who do not weep, do not see.”

“Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.”

“Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.”

“Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.”

“The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.”

“The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.”

“Revolutions go not backward.”