Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Love is a game in which one always cheats.
Goriot Behind every great fortune there is a crime. Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.