“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”– Henry David Thoreau Related Quotes “My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that’s just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.”– Tom Lehrer “A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”– Saint Basil “The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.”– Samuel Johnson