Quotes by Victor Hugo

“ Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket. ”

“ A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. ”

“ There is nothing like a dream to create the future. ”

“ People do not lack strength, they lack will. ”

“ He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ”

“ A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars. ”

“ Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. ”

“ Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection. ”

“ You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience. ”

“ Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. ”

“ You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it. ”

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