Admiration and familiarity are strangers. [ George Sand ]

So many men in court and so many strangers. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

In the company of strangers silence is safe. [ Proverb ]

Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked up in strangers' galleries. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers. [ Themistocles ]

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence. [ Montaigne ]

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else. [ Spurgeon ]

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. [ Emerson ]