A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.