“What is love? two souls and one flesh friendship? two bodies and one soul.”

“A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”

“When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.”

“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”

“Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.”

“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call ...”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”