"There is a sacred horror about everything..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Progress is not accomplished in one stage.”

“Popularity? It's glory's small change.”

“Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.”

“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.”

“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”

“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.”

“Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.”

“Talent borrows, genius steals!”

“this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night”