A True Friend Is Tested In Adversity.

To Open His Lips Is Crime In A Plain Citizen.

O Friend Unseen, Unborn, Unknown, Student Of Our Sweet English Tongue, I Never Indulge In Poetics - Unless I Am Down With Rheumatics.

Whom Men Fear They Hate, And Whom They Hate, They Wish Dead.

Don't Ask Of Your Friends What You Yourself Can Do.

The Wise Man Is Wise In Vain Who Cannot Be Wise To His Own Advantage. [lat., Nequicquam Sapere Sapientem, Qui Ipse Sibi Prodesse Non Quiret.]