Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.
Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.