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

"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect."

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

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

"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."

"True friends are families which you can select."