There is nothing more glorious—nothing that does more honour to true virtue, than the confidence with which one approaches a friend of tried integrity.
Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.
Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.
There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.
They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.
Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.
...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
For it is a true fact that faeries, just like people, very often find that a full belly and a good friend are all that they need to be happy.
The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits.
True or not, it's important to have stories ― they are what give us the right to walk the earth and have a name.
It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence which is the true eloquence of love.
Tobias loved her more than he’d loved anything—his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark... To diminish the number of the dark, to increase the number of the luminous, there is the aim.
There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it not been sanctioned by mutual assent. True or false.
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.
