"To contemplate is to look at shadows...." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“When liberty returns, I will return.”

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

“It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.”

“If you want the answer to anything, go sit in Nature for awhile”

“I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.”

“To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.”

“A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.”

“Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.”

“Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.”