"The quantity of civilization is measured by..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.”

“The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.”

“He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.”

“Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?”

“Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.”

“If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.”

“The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.”

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”

“Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?”