More quotes by Honore de Balzac

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