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George Washington·1783

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

Mary Wollstonecraft·1796

Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose. Besides, few like to be seen as they really are; and a degree of simplicity, and of undisguised confidence, which, to uninterested observers, would almost border on weakness, is the charm, nay the essence of love or friendship, all the bewitching graces of childhood again appearing.

Theodore Roosevelt·1903

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.