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• A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...
• There is no such thing as a little country. the greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.
  -- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)...
• Habit is the nursery of errors. -- Victor Hugo
• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love.
  His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul....
• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought.
  There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo...
• When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. -- Victor Hugo
• INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not wholly extinct, may be said to have seen their best nights.
  For a complete account of _incubi_ and _succubi_, including _incubae_ and _succubae_, see the _Liber Demonorum_ of Protassus (Paris, 1328), which contains much curious information that would be out of place in a dictionary intended as a text-book for the public schools....
• As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. -- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
• I hate Victor Hugo, said Les miserably.