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

"True friends are families which you can select."

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

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

"The most important thing is growing old gracefully."

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