“Dear Friends, for we have many Dangers past,
And greater, God these too will end at last.”

“When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to strangers. Long before the moment came to say goodbye, I think, we said goodbye in other words and ways and silences. Then when the moment came for it at last, we didn't say it as should be said by friends. So now at last, dear Mouse, with many, many years between: goodbye.”

“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.”

“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.”

“In Christ you will find, a very dear Friend;
Who is of this mind, to love to the end;
Yet satan is seeking, His sheep to devour;
And God He is making some whole this bright hour.”

“Thank Heaven! the crisis —
The danger is past,
And the lingering illness
Is over at last —
And the fever called "Living"
Is conquered at last.”

“We are born too late to see the beginning, and we did too soon to see the end of many things.”

“Nothing is "always," my dear. Except the greater truths, one of which is that power begets politics, and politics are more dangerous than war because there are fewer rules.”

“We have too many cellphones. We've got too many Internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.”

“Imagine that Jesus died on the cross. But who will be immortal in this world, or are you not going to die too my dear friend?”