“For adventure is not outside a man it is within. ”

“Contentment and indeed usefulness comes as the infallible result of great acceptances great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.”

“What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid boundless colored mutability!-Life in the making?”

“We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.”

“Of all the people in the world those who want the most are those who have the most.”

“Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”