Victor Hugo ( 10 of 71 )
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.
Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a read more
Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that read more
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its read more
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
