All happiness depends on courage and work. - 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."

"Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine."

"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."

"Reading brings us unknown friends"