"I was always a lover of soft-winged..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.”

“If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.”

“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.”

“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.”

“Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.”

“I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.”

“The heavenly-harness'd teamBegins his golden progress in the east.”

“I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.”

“Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.”