Victor Hugo

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

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

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,--
A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake
The read more

Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,--
A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake
The angel for the woman in a kiss,
At once I wis,
My soul will wake!

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows,
Far west, among those flowers of the shadows,
read more

The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows,
Far west, among those flowers of the shadows,
The thin, clear crescent lustrous over her,
Made Ruth raise question, looking through the bars
Of heaven, with eyes half-oped, what God, what comer
Unto the harvest of the eternal summer,
Had flung his golden hook down on the field of stars.