There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. - P.G. Wodehouse
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. - Robert Brault
A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. - H.G. Wells
With…love of wind, there is no surer test of genuine Nature instinct that this. Any body can love sunshine. - anonymous, from "The Anthenaeum", 1877, in review of Thoreau