Honore de Balzac — French Novelist born on May 20, 1799, died on August 18, 1850

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte... (wikipedia)

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.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.