Victor Hugo

Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

A library implies an act of faith.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Conscience is God present in man.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.