Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

Education is an asset no man can take away.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.