What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?
Honore de BalzacWe do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.
Honore de BalzacIn a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.
Honore de Balzac