I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.