And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in li... - Honore de Balzac

"All happiness depends on courage and work."

"Love is the poetry of the senses!"

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

"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."

"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."