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

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."

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

"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."

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