Michael Sliney

“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” George Eliot

“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?” George Eliot

“Angry people are not always wise.” Jane Austen

“Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.” (from a letter to her niece, 1814) Jane Austen