“I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...
“I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses
“Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks
“Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear... But yours gives most; for mine did only lend me to the world; yours gave to me a friend
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.