Honore de Balzac Quote

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on

Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage