"Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself."

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."

"You can make anything by writing."

"I was with book, as a woman is with child"

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."