We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
Honore de BalzacKindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.
Honore de BalzacVirginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.
Honore de Balzac