"No one ever keeps a secret so..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.”

“My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!”

“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”

“Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.”

“Nature tells every secret once.”

“There are secrets in all families.”

“I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.”

“When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.”

“Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.”