Trouble shared is troubled halved. All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer. Robert Owen Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. To want friendship is a great fault.
Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life.
Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while we boast to the others. If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know. And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend.