"Man does not understand nor accept immortality..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.”

“The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”

“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.”

“Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.”

“The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.”

“Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.”

“Only in dreams of springShall I ever see againThe flowering of my cherry trees.”

“Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep.”