More quotes by Honore de Balzac

"Reading brings us unknown friends"
"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."
"for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea"
"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
"Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine."