Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

Pride slays thanksgiving but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

A little learning indeed may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

We only labor to stuff the memory and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Even Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy, it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other and seven days are more than enough for others.

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