“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.”
“No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.”
“Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.”
“There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.”
“All my signposts had gone up in one blinding, dizzying explosion [...] none of the scenery looked familiar anymore.”
“He who hath many friends hath none.”