"We never exchange more than three words..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.”
“I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.”
“Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.”
More on Friendship
“I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.”
“There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.”
“Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.”