There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Published on May 21, 2016 , under Quotes
Source: Samuel Johnson: Rambler #18 (May 19, 1750).
Complete Sentence: Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and that he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness, that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.