Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God
Honore de BalzacThe man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
Honore de BalzacMaterialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.
Honore de BalzacGenius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.
Honore de Balzac