"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.”

“Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.”

“The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.”

“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”

“We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.”

“Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.”

“Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.”

“Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.”

“That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.”