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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.

That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack writers? Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

I don't know that I've ever felt as happy as I did that day, but then again, it was always like that when we were together. I never wanted it to end.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

Most people leave work at the end of the day so they can surround themselves with people and talk, but those are both things I do all day anyway! So I tend to seek out peace in my private time.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.