"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway " — Elbert Hubbard

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend

Source: The New England Tragedies, John Endicott (1868)

All for one, one for all.

Source: The Three Musketeers (1844)

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Source: Emma (1815)

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

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

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does

Source: Emma (1815)

Elbert Hubbard Quote