If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young