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

"All happiness depends on courage and work."

"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."

"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."

"Love is the poetry of the senses!"