I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather not I…

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

'The bread of the stranger is bitter,' says Dante, 'and his staircase hard to climb.' But who can know what the bitterness of dependence is so well as the poor…

This book has as much to say about computers as Zen or motorcycle maintenance... Pirsig says more sensible things about the relationship between man and machin…

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and th…