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

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

"All happiness depends on courage and work."

"Reading brings us unknown friends"

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."

"And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink."