It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

Friends should be chosen by a higher principle of selection than any worldly one. They should be chosen for character, for goodness, for truth and trustworthiness, because they have sympathy with us in our best thoughts and holiest aspirations, because they have community of mind in the things of the soul.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

What we feel is as true a fact as what we think.

Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man.

Friendship means to be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need.

In the relationship of friends: "Each gives to the other, and each receives, and the fruit of the intercourse is more than either in himself possesses. Every individual relationship has contact with a universal. To reach out to the fuller life of love is a divine enchantment, because it leads to more than itself, and is the open door into the mystery of life".