"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."

"True friends are families which you can select."

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

"People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love."