More From Victor Hugo
- "Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
- "I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!"
- "The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate."