The more one judges, the less one loves. - Honore de Balzac

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

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

"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

"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."

"for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea"