If we cannot love unconditionally, love is already in a critical condition.

CAN the last parting do much to hurt such friendships between good souls, who have so long learnt to say farewell, to love in absence, to trust through silence, and to have faith in re-union?

FRIENDSHIP improves happiness, and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy, and the dividing of our grief.

There are some who think that they should strive to bestow equal love on all, and who on religious grounds avoid particular friendships.   It was not Christ’s way and it ends badly.

THIS communicating of a man’s selfe to his friend works two contrarie effects; for it redoubleth joies and cutteth griefes in halfes.

A BLESSED thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, who knows the best and the worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. 

THE only love worthy of the name, ever and always uplifts.

It is very good for strength to know that someone needs you to be strong

Which of us has not felt a sin that we have gone on carelessly yielding to when only our own character was at stake, become impossible to us when we were made to realise that it involved injury to another

Whether each day of your life shall give happiness or suffering rests with yourself.