Honore de Balzac
  • One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

  • Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

  • Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

  • Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

  • It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.