Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.
Honore de BalzacDiscouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.
Honore de BalzacWhen Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
Honore de BalzacReligious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.
Honore de Balzac