Friendship is an allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counsellor of our doubts, the charity of our minds, the emission of our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we meditate.
—Taylor.
Beware lest thy friend learn to tolerate one frailty of thine, and so an obstacle be raised to the progress of thy love.
—Thoreau.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
—Franklin.
