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.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.