“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
“To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still.
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend
“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins
“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing
“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit
“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other