Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.

Reading is no substitute for action.

—Colleen Wainwright

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

—Colleen Wainwright

The wise man carries his possessions within him.

—Colleen Wainwright

Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

—Colleen Wainwright

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

—Cicero

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

—Aristotle

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

—Aristotle

You can go through life and make new friends every year—every month practically—but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years.

—Alexander McCall Smith in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.