The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.