Victor Hugo

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

I will support a path to citizenship if it does not fall within the definition of amnesty, and we've got to define what amnesty is in this country.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.