"It is the mark of a great..." - Quote by Honore De Balzac

“Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.”

“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”

“An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”

“When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.”

“It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.”

“Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.”

“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend”

“I have nothing to declare except my genuis.”

“The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.”