balzac Quotes

“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”

“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”

“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”

“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”

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

“What is art? Nature concentrated.”

“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”

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

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

“The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.”