“One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.”

“Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.”

“You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,And how, how rare and strange it is, to findIn a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends,(For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!)To find a friend who has these qualities,Who has, and givesThose qualities upon which friendship lives.How much it means that I say this to you-Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!”

“I know you wish to be normal, human, but soon you will see there is nothing better than what you are.”

“One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.”

“How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?”