"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."
"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."
"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."
"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."