Honore de Balzac

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it…

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the…

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love…

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul…

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which…

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint…

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God…

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that…

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless…

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured…

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the…

Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling…

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the…

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin…

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman…