"Only your friends steal your books...." - Quote by Voltaire

“The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.”

“Happiness is not the portion of man.”

“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.”

“Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.”

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”

“The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely.”

“We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.”

“Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.”

“It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.”