More quotes by Honore de Balzac

"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."
"The more one judges, the less one loves."
"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."
"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
"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."