Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.
Honore de BalzacOne of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.
Honore de BalzacDuring the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.
Honore de Balzac