Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.
John Dryden
Friendship
A quote by John Dryden
From the source
Threnodia Augustalis. Line 124.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.