Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
More Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.