Victor Hugo

"Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age."

"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."

"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."

"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh."

"I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!"

"Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive."