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

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

"All happiness depends on courage and work."

"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 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"