glimpses of the past

"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice."

"It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them."

  

  "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."