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we never could differ about the worth and comfort of domestic affection

Husband, lover, nurse--not one of these, has Robert been to me, but all three together.

Oh, if our friends would but put off anatomising one till after one was safely dead, and call to mind that, previously, we have nerves to be agonised and morbid brains to be driven mad!

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our associates.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

Having treated my friend ill, I wished to apologize; but, not meeting him, I made an apology to myself.

What signifies the census--this periodical numbering of men--to one who has no friend?

In short, we ought to do justice in a kindly spirit to all nations and require justice from them in return.

The friend, however, took her in, and the friend's husband was obliged to sleep upon a bench in the park every night for a week, which he did uncomplainingly if not cheerfully.

angry people are not always wise

Politics need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path.

We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession.

In final account, then, not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

I don’t know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

Of Severus, my brother, I learned to love my kinsmen, to love truth, to love justice.

It is only when life is sluggish within us that we speak: only at moments when reality lies far away, and we do not wish to be conscious of our brethren.