“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?

An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Aid my disillusionment, my friend!

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

Silence is the only Voice of our God.

The circle of life is crazy.

Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

I am proud to be and I am Welsh, a mother, a wife, a friend and a musician.

No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.

A true friend will never try to change you, no matter how weird the world thinks you are.

With a best friend, I can build an empire beside.

We couldn’t be friends because God knows we were meant to be lovers. Doomed to never belong to each other.

I think friendships are a lot more valuable than one job. If you’re going to let it ruin that, then that’s stupid.