"If we must suffer, let us suffer..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”

“Algebra applies to the clouds.”

“Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.”

“All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.”

“It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world.”

“For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.”

“And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.”

“The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.”

“Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Eldar Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings.”