Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

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.

Years do not always make age.