No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
— Henry Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Friends are born, not made.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
