Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Those who live are those who fight.

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

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

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.