“When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.”
“Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.”
“You can only know a friend so well after all. When you come right down to it, even your best friend is a puzzle.”
“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.”
“Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.”
“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.”