"The language of friendship is not words but meanings " — Henry David Thoreau

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other

Source: Emma (1815)

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

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

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

All for one, one for all.

Source: The Three Musketeers (1844)

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage

Source: Emma (1815)

Henry David Thoreau Quote