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

"All happiness depends on courage and work."

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

"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

"Love is the poetry of the senses!"

"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."