What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend's gift as the friend's love.
Saint Alfred of Rievaulx
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand Russell
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.