Victor Hugo

What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."

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

Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels.

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

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.