“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
“We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us”
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
“Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.”
“youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”