First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Honore de BalzacThe art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Honore de BalzacNothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de BalzacPoles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.
Honore de Balzac