If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye... - Honore de Balzac

"for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea"

"All happiness depends on courage and work."

"The more one judges, the less one loves."

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

"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."