"If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race."

"You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought."

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"Civilization is human rights, it is the path of setting man free from men, phobia, to survive it, we must cultivate the science of human relationships."