It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought of his daily necessities. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

One real world is enough.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.