How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.
Honore de BalzacDuring the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.
Honore de BalzacIn family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.
Honore de Balzac