Victor Hugo

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

— Victor Hugo

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

— Victor Hugo

Table talk and lovers’ talk equally elude the grasp; lovers’ talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

— Victor Hugo

Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

— Victor Hugo

Be as a bird that— / Pausing in its flight— / Alights upon a branch too slight / And feeling that it bends beneath it / Sings—knowing it has wings.

— Victor Hugo