You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I was the only real one particular.

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

The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.