We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.
Honore de BalzacThe woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
Honore de BalzacRich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
Honore de BalzacEverybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
Honore de Balzac