Honoré de Balzac1799–1850- Letter to Zulma Carraud (2 July 1832), translated by C. Lamb Kenney
- Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842), Part I, ch. XLV
- The Vicar of Tours (1832), Ch. I
- Lost Illusions, Part II: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (1839), tr. Ellen Marriage, ch. I
- Eugénie Grandet (1833), translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, ch. VI
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
La Duchesse de Langeais (1834), translated by Ellen Marriage, part IIPower does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)- Physiology of Marriage (1829)
- A Woman of Thirty (1842), Ch. III: At Thirty Years
- The Lily of the Valley (1835), Part II: First Love, as translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
