Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. "In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.