To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.

I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.