Get the Quote of the Day from Victor Hugo
Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines.
Armies cannot stop an idea whose time has come.
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.