• As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

    Martin Farquhar Tupper: As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.
    Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Proverbial philosophy”, p.202