Honore de Balzac

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.

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

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

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.