Mark

“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”
― Francis Bacon

“I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.”
― Mark Twain

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War