More quotes by Honore de Balzac

"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."
"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."
"Love is the poetry of the senses!"
"for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea"