True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
My friends are my estate.
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements.
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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do on chewing gum.
A leader who keeps his ear to the ground allows his rear end to become a target.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
What is to give light must endure burning.
A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.