It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

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.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.