"In love and friendship, small, steady payments..." - Quote by Henry Van Dyke

“How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.”

“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.”

“No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.”

“I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.”

“Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.”

“Love can do much, but duty more.”

“Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.”

“While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.”

“Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.”