Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.
Honore de BalzacYour modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.
Honore de BalzacSeveral sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.
Honore de Balzac