"What is love? two souls and one flesh friendship? two bodies and one soul."

“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”

“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.”

“It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.”

“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”

“Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.”

“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”