“To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.”– Victor Hugo Related Quotes “The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.”– Martin Luther “Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”– Garrison Keillor “I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.”– Thomas Carlyle