"To be perfectly happy it does not..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

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

“Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?”

“Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.”

“Our content Is our best having.”

“I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.”

“Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.”

“The implements to him who can handle them.”

“Merit rarely goes unrewarded.”