Honore de Balzac

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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, «Serve all, love one».

"The Lily Of The Valley"

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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

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

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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

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

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

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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

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

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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.

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