I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
Source: Essays, Friendship (First Series), 1841.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.