Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude... - Honore de Balzac

"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."

"The more one judges, the less one loves."

"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."

"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."