Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with
a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure read more

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with
a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring
all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a
faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping
and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady
purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its read more

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady
purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

I think and that is all that I am.

I think and that is all that I am.

Good writing is clear thinking made visible.

Good writing is clear thinking made visible.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.

There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.

Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by
their understandings.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by
their understandings.