“Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!”
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Victor Hugo
“Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.”
Victor Hugo
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
Victor Hugo
“Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.”
Victor Hugo
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
Victor Hugo