A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.