Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of... - Honore de Balzac

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

"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."

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

"Love is the poetry of the senses!"

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