"There is one spectacle grander than the..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Press on! A better fate awaits thee.”

“Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.”

“There shall be no slavery of the mind.”

“The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work.”

“Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.”

“The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.”

“The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.”

“Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.”

“If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.”