Real friendships among men ...

Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.
 Clarence Day

Quotes from the same author

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.
 Clarence Day
A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.
 Clarence Day
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.
 Clarence Day
It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.
 Clarence Day