If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.