I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty. ↗
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young. ↗
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success. ↗