The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.
Honore de BalzacAs soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to moveโฆsimiles arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.
Honore de BalzacIn Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.
Honore de BalzacWhen one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.
Honore de Balzac