“We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us”

“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”

“A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.”

“If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.”

“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”