A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.
Honore de BalzacLove endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.
Honore de BalzacIdeas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore de BalzacIt is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Honore de Balzac