“[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.”

“The most beautiful lives, to my mind,are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle, and without eccentricity.”

“a good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”

“Every man has within himself the entire human condition”

“Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.”

“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will - Montaigne, Essays”