“We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected.”
“Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…”
“God gave us our relatives: thank god we can choose our friends.”
“We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.”
“A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.”
“We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us”