"Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.”

“Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.”

“Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.”

“Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree.”

“While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them.”

“Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?”

“Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines.”

“But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”

“Giving is the business of the rich.”