"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"It's such a happiness when good people get together."

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."

"The most important thing is growing old gracefully."

"True friends are families which you can select."

"You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child."