And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.