Quotes by : Honore de Balzac

Some troubles like a protested note of a solvent debtor bear interest.

Hope is a light diet but very stimulating.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give....

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion....

Envy is the most stupid of vices for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.