Pastoral Resources

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.

The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.

I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.

Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.