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Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

There is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women

The brain of man is the social organ, the organ of communication. Through it flows the current of thought, whereby we are enabled to work together.

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse; not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

A boy of spirit may acquire a previous and practical experience of the world; and his playfellows may be the future friends of his heart or his interest.

Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our associates.

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession.

In final account, then, not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates.

There is nothing so unsociable and sociable as man, the one by his vice, the other by his nature.

Only in love are unity and duality not at variance.

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.

Intimate friends are not fair witnesses to character, any more than professed enemies.

It is better therefore to listen patiently to a friend's rebuke, for if he should afterwards do wrong himself and so need rebuke, he has set you the example of freedom of speech.