It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
~ Jane Austen.
"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
~ Charlotte Bronte.
. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
~ Mary Shelley.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
~ Charles Caleb Colton.
