Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
Honore de BalzacThe secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
Honore de BalzacIn Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.
Honore de Balzac