We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.