A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.
never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.
... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.
... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.
the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough.
There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insult to Heaven itself.