Canal Quote by E. Nesbit

“I have made all sorts of acquaintances, but have as yet found no society. I know not what attraction I possess for the people,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I meditated on the nature of friendship as I practiced the craft. My friends had always come from outside the mainstream. I had always…

— Pat Conroy

“Yet I had not been many days shut up with them before I began to be ashamed of my first judgment, when I had…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“People were endlessly good, wise, and gentle in the midst of all the hurry, the conferences, the dinner invitations, the smell of disinfectant, the…

— Riikka Pulkkinen

“They were all so jovial and relaxed with one another, fraternal even. Maybe I was envious of that. They had lives—that was evident.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“I wrote that outsiders were often lonely, but they needed to be to change the world around them. And they understood loyalty far better…

— Julian North

“Good people often lost out. To come up in life, one needed to be devious and cunning.”

— Anand Neelakantan

“Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”

— Victor Hugo

“But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to…

— Leo Tolstoy

“A generous spirit finds friends everywhere.”

— Bella Sara

“It is, after all, a simple and tragic thing that on occasion our unkindness to others is actually a desperate effort to be kind…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Kindness is a most attractive quality. Like a blazing fire on a cold winter's night, We are drawn to its warmth and light.”

— Rona V Flynn