Friends Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend ten shillings on a hotel.
Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
The only way to have a friend is to be one. If you have one true friend you have more than your share. A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology. Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.