Honore de Balzac
  • All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

  • When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

  • Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

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

  • There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.