Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Without couples, there can be no communities. Without friendship, trust, and intimacy between two, the bonds connecting three, or four, or four thousand, are easily severed. ― Jacob L. Wright

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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. — Simone De Beauvoir

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When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Integrity is doing what is right and truthful, and doing as you say you would do. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world. ― Amit Ray

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Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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