Honore de Balzac. Pebbled leather (№ 248080)

When we reach such a degree of scientific knowledge that we will be able to write the natural history of hearts, to set their nomenclature to classify them according to genera, species and families, split into crustaceans, fossils, the lizard, the simplest... more there are any, - then, dear friend, it is proved that there are hearts tender, and delicate as flowers, and that they break so easily that you don't feel other hearts-minerals...