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"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 depre…"

"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 c…"

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

"White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of …"

"If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment — giving to that word its exact significance. Man does not c…"

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"Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all."

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

"Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy."

"In the End was the Word: Balzac's Modernist Absolute" by Scott Sprenger"

"Tone is light in another shape. In music, instruments perform the functions of the colours employed in painting."

"We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men."

"Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an except…"

"Honore de Balzac's The Human Comedy : A Pathfinder"

"In Paris the rich encounter wit ready-made, pre-digested science, and opinions already formulated, which excuse them from hand to have wit, science or opinion."

"Balzac as Anthropologist" by Scott Sprenger"

"Clouds signify the veil of the Most High."

"The more one judges, the less one loves."