"Smallness in a great man seems smaller..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.”

“What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.”

“The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.”

“We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.”

“There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.”

“Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.”

“The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.”

“None but great men are capable of having great flaws.”

“Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.”