“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.
“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
“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other
“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine
“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world
“Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved