The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
William Shenstone
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.
Lemony Snicket
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
Mika Waltari
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa of Avila
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
J. Paul Getty