No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
Honore de BalzacVocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Honore de BalzacTo say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.
Honore de BalzacThe day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.
Honore de BalzacHowever gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?
Honore de Balzac