Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

The line urges an active, architect-like approach to living: one should shape one’s choices so that ideals (“dreaming”) are not left as mere fantasy but are eventually realized in concrete outcomes (“fact”). It implies a moral responsibility to align aspiration with action over time, and it treats the future as a meeting point where inner vision is tested by reality. In a broader Romantic frame often associated with Hugo, the saying also dignifies imagination as a legitimate guide—provided it is disciplined by work and perseverance—so that the world can be remade to match what the mind dares to conceive.