Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.
Honore de BalzacWhen chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
Honore de BalzacLove may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Honore de Balzac