“No one should be deprived of love without the very best of reasons. ”
“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”
“A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends”
“When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”
“Love should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself.”
“Frugality without creativity is deprivation.”