“Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.”

“[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques...”

“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder and romantic love. ”

“The friendship of two young people,' says Goethe somewhere, 'is delightful when the girl likes to learn and the boy to teach.' It will perhaps be said that this virgin curiosity is no more than unconscious physical desire; but what does it matter, if this desire sharpens the mind and deadens conceit?”

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

“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. ”

“Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.”