“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.

By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

I just thank God I’m still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.

And it’s true. It’s so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve… I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask. But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.

How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I knew of Senator [George] Mitchell because he was very close friends with who was soon to be the senior senator, Paul Sarbanes. Paul Sarbanes and George Mitchell were kind of pals together.

Can’t we be friends?’ I hate your guts, Frankovitch’ Can’t our guts be friends?

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.