“The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.”

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?”

“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.”

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”

“If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved”