Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Honore de BalzacWhen chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
Honore de BalzacLove may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.
Honore de Balzac