LIKE honor, generosity, justice, sincerity, truthfulness and other virtues in frequent and indiscriminate use by the unmindful, friendship is spoken of and assurances of friendship are proffered and acknowledged everywhere; but, like the other virtues, and, although it is felt in some degree by all men, it is a bond and state most rare.
NJENGOBA inhlonipho, ukuphana, ubulungisa, ukwethembeka, ukwethembeka kanye nezinye izici ekusetshenzisweni okungajwayelekile futhi okungakhethi ngokungaqondakali, ubungane kukhulunywe ngakho kanye nokuqinisekiswa kobuhlobo kufakwe futhi kuvunyelwe yonke indawo; kodwa, njengamanye amakhono, futhi, nakuba ezwa ngezinga elithile ngabo bonke abantu, kuyisibopho nesimo esingavamile kakhulu.