To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.
Honore de BalzacHe's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.
Honore de BalzacThe greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
Honore de Balzac