“It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem, and in my esteem age is not estimable
“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't
“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all