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

"I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you."

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

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

"True friends are families which you can select."

"My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up!"