"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.”

“A great artist is a great man in a great child.”

“But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.”

“There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.”

“In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.”

“As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.”

“I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.”

“Sir, the year growing ancient,Not yet on summer's death nor on the birthOf trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' seasonAre our carnations and streaked gillyvors,Which some call nature's bastards.”

“True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.”