Honoré de Balzac

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”

“There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.”

“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.”

“If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.”

“Love is the poetry of the senses!”

“Glory is the sunshine of the dead”

“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”

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

“Вера в себя способна творить такие же чудеса, как вера в Господа Бога.”