Quotes by Honore de Balzac

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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

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.