More quotes by Honore de Balzac

"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."
"Reading brings us unknown friends"
"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."
"Love is the poetry of the senses!"
"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."