“Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.”
Honore de Balzac“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.”
Honore de Balzac“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”
Honore de Balzac“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.”
Honore de Balzac“Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.”
Honore de Balzac“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. ”
Honore de Balzac“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.”
Honore de Balzac“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
Honore de Balzac“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”
Honore de Balzac“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
Honore de Balzac“The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.”
Honore de Balzac