Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.