“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.”

“There are those to whom one must advise madness.”

“We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.”

“We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own”

“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”

“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”

“When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.”