There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Besides, I know what sort of a mind I have placed in communication with my own: I know it is one not liable to take infection: it is a peculiar mind: it is a unique one. Happily, I do not mean to harm it: but if I did, it would not take harm from me. The more you and I converse the better; for while I cannot blight you, you may refresh me.

An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its door quickly, fearful lest the nurse who sat up all night should here me. I dreaded being discovered and sent back; for I must see Helen,- I must embrace her before she died,- I must give her one last kiss, exchange with her one last word.

You know I am too English to get up a vehement friendship all at once.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.