Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."

"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."