Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, "Here comes one who will augment our loves." For in this love "to divide is not to take away.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.