The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.