Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offe

You can't tell your friend you've been cuckolded; even if he doesn't laugh at you, he may put the information to personal use

April watched the rain a beat. “You need a lift to California, and you need money to do that. I’ve got a guy who can help you.”
“But you don’t know me. I don’t know you.”
“Yeah, but that’s how everyone starts out,” April said.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.