"Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."
~ Dr Samuel Johnson
"He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes."
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
~ Henry David Thoreau
"Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours."
~ Henry David Thoreau
