Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect

By : Honore de Balzac

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion

By : Honore de Balzac

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

By : Honore de Balzac

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together

By : Honore de Balzac

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

By : Honore de Balzac

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

By : Honore de Balzac

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

By : Honore de Balzac

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

By : Honore de Balzac

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

By : Honore de Balzac

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

By : Honore de Balzac

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

By : Honore de Balzac

Love is the poetry of the senses.

By : Honore de Balzac