FRIENDSHIP

LIFE IS TO BE FORTIFIED BY MANY FRIENDSHIPS - TO LOVE AND TO BE LOVED IS THE GREATEST HAPPPINESS OF EXISTENCE
 - Sydney Smith  

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.  It is well worthwhile to learn how to win the heart of the man the right way.  Force is of no use to make or  preserve a friend, who is an animal that is never caught or tamed but by kindness and pleasure.  Accept them by your civilities, and show them that you desire nothing more than their satisfaction; oblige  with all your soul that friend who has made you a present of his own.  - SOCRATES