Honore de Balzac

"A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."

- Honore de Balzac

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

- Honore de Balzac

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."

- Honore de Balzac

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself."

- Honore de Balzac

"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."

- Honore de Balzac

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

- Honore de Balzac

"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."

- Honore de Balzac

"All happiness depends on courage and works"

- Honore de Balzac

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

- Honore de Balzac

"All happiness depends on courage and work."

- Honore de Balzac

""Coffee sets the blood in motion, makes the motor spirits flow, an excitation that precipitates digestion, chases away sleep and allows you to use your cerebral faculties a little longer.""

- Honore de Balzac

"When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army."

- Honore de Balzac

"Coffee falls into the stomach ... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop ... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similies arise, the paper is covered with ink ..."

- Honore de Balzac

"Reading brings us unknown friends."

- Honore de Balzac

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will find forgiveness."

- Honore de Balzac

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

- Honore de Balzac

"A mother who is really a mother is never free."

- 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