"Life is a flower of which love is the honey" — Victor-Marie Hugo

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

Source: Walden (1854)

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

Source: Walden (1854)

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage

Source: Cato, act 2 (1713)

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with

Source: Following the Equator, ch. 48 (1897)

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage

Source: Emma (1815)

Victor-Marie Hugo Quote