Victor Hugo

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

To love beauty is to see light.

To love is to act.

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

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.