Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.