George Eliot Friends Quotations

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.