"All animals are to be found in..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.”

“The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.”

“Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.”

“You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism.”

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”

“A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.”

“But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.”

“There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.”

“Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.”