To love beauty is to see light. — Victor Hugo

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. — Honore de Balzac
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. — Khalil Gibran
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. — Victor Hugo
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. — Victor Hugo