“Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.” IfsWellsMayStatesFriendshipViolenceBrokenStonesLet MeMetaphorAccidentsFormerHeatTrustedHopelessnessFlawedRestoringCoarseVasesPrecious Stones Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor
“Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.” MenHouseSidesFriendshipLet MeHospitalityFirmament Author:Sam Walter Foss