“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.”

Honore de Balzac

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

Honore de Balzac

“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.”

Honore de Balzac

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

Honore de Balzac

“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”

Honore de Balzac