Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

True friends are always together in spirit.

You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.