Conversation is best with lulls — Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

The Conversation is that which makes for friends rather than vice versa.

Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings.

Conversation is feminine, circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

Family is organized around the most damaged person in it.

A Family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

A Family is like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.

The Family is a group of people no two of whom like their breakfast eggs cooked the same way.

Friendship is not something you get; rather it is something you give.

Friendship is a roller coaster — He who seeks a constant friend goes to the cemetery.

Friendship is good — better a stranger made a friend than a friend made a stranger

Friendship is to do unto some one that which you would not allow him to do unto you.

Hardship is the bad times that wake us to the good times we weren’t paying attention to.

Hardship is a state that makes the world obscure.

Hardship is a boat protected with a heavy covering.

Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance, and he that cannot abide the storm, without flinching or quailing strips himself in the sunshine, and lies down by the wayside, to be overlooked and forgotten.