“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.”

“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence. ”

“A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.”

“If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. ”

“People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination”

“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.”

“Mankind are always happy for having happiness. So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it. ”