More quotes by Honore de Balzac

"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
"Love is the poetry of the senses!"
"All happiness depends on courage and work."
"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."
"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."