“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.”

“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”

“Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.”

“When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.”

“Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.”

“two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes”

“The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover larger portions of it. Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.”

“I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.”

“Both professor and student share in the pursuit of excellence and perfection.”

“You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”