“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”

“The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. ”

“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game is finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.”

“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”

“Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.”

“One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.”

“Without a family,man,alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”