“Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable”

“As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible”

“My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere”

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one”

“Grief is the price we pay for love”

“The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”