Honore de Balzac
  • A mother who is really a mother is never free.

  • Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

  • Love is the poetry of the senses.

  • To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

  • But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.