"True friendship is a plant of slow..." - Quote by George Washington

“I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.”

“[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.”

“It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.”

“Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.”

“I believe it`s important to be open and honest, especially with your friends.”

“In order to have friends, you must first be one.”

“Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.”

“You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”

“In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.”