A. Bronson Alcott
Who is not ready to acknowledge that friendship is the delight of youth, the pillar of age, the bloom of prosperity, the charm of solitude, the solace of adversity, the best benefactor and comforter in this vale of tears?
Anon
Reasonableness of Friendship
However well proved a friendship may appear, there are confidences which it should not hear, and sacrifices which should not be required of it.
Joseph Roux
Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he maketh his wings shorter.