Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.
Honore de BalzacWomen 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.
Honore de BalzacJournalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.
Honore de Balzac