A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor know... - Honore de Balzac

"Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside."

"Love is the poetry of the senses!"

"Reading brings us unknown friends"

"Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love."

"And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink."