“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence
“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better
“The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
“I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt
“Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!