“Happiness is promoted by associations of persons with similar tastes and similar opinions.”
“Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.”
“A novelist is similar to a triathlete. Train hard every day. You will be timed and measured. Budget to promote, grow, and be without fear.”
“The taste of music with the inhabitants of Venus and Jupiter is at a high level, similar to that of Frenchmen or Italians.”
“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”
“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”