Honoré de Balzac

"Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue."

"Finance, like time, devours its own children."

"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment."

"The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times."

"Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?"

"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."

"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."