“Friendship cannot live with ceremony nor without civility.”

“An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.”

“The past is the best way to suppose what may come.”

“An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”