"Balzac's World : Reader's Guide: Themes in the Novels of Balzac"

“The tiniest flower is a thought, — a life which corresponds to certain lineaments of the Great Whole, of which they have a constant intuition.”

“Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.”

“Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of the Spiritual world. Thus man takes note of more than he is able to explain, while the Angelic Spirit sees and comprehends. Science depresses man; Love exalts the Angel. Science is still seeking, Love has found. Man judges Nature according to his own relations to her; the Angelic Spirit judges it in its relation to Heaven. In short, all things have a voice for the Spirit.”

“Kədər sonsuz, sevinc isə məhduddur.”

“History is of two kinds—there is the official history taught in schools, a lying compilation ad usum delphini; and there is the secret history which deals with the real causes of events—a scandalous chronicle.”

“The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.”