"Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends."

"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage."

"Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory."

"It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine."

"Friendship is a wildly underrated medication."

"It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them."

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

"Every sunset is a reminder that the bonds of friendship are the true treasures of existence."