Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).

Always winter but never Christmas.

Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord, make me chaste,' his heart had been secretly adding, 'But please don't do it just yet.