It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
