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.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.