Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.