"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends" — Samuel Pepys

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

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

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones

Source: Letter to James Welch (Apr. 7, 1799)

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

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

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy

Source: The Way to Wealth (1758)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Source: Sketches by Boz, The Broker's Man (1836)

Samuel Pepys Quote