“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”

“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”

“He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.”

“An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, —"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.”

“We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected.”

“Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.”

“The man is the head of the house but the woman is the neck that turns the head.”