As people grow older friends and associates of youth are apt to be more appreciated, and old relations are oftentimes resumed that have been suffered to languish for many years.
These links with the past form a chain that, next to the ties of blood, forms one of the strongest relations of social life.
Although pessimists declare that friendship is a myth and what are called intimates are people who consort together for amusement or self-interest, the very fact that there is this feeling of especial kindness for old time associates proves that there is such a thing as sentiment independent of worldly considerations.
—Unknown.
Every friend is to the other a sun and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
—Richter.
