Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
Honore de BalzacA husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.
Honore de BalzacMaterialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.
Honore de BalzacA mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore de Balzac