Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. Randolph Bourne More Quotes by Randolph Bourne More Quotes From Randolph Bourne A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him. Randolph Bourne sides friendship men Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books. Randolph Bourne heaven book lying We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living. Randolph Bourne