"Where words fail, music speaks" — Hans Christian Andersen

Friendship: A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

Source: Sartor Resartus (1836)

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

Source: Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself (1892 edition)

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Hans Christian Andersen Quote