"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be." ― Jane Austen Topic(s): Friendship More From Jane Austen "One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best." "The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love." "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of." More In Friendship "Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."― Elbert Hubbard "Peace is liberty in tranquillity."― Marcus Tullius Cicero "Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference."― Emil Ludwig