Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest read more

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you read more

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for read more

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior read more

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

To the world you are just one person, but to one person you could mean the world.

To the world you are just one person, but to one person you could mean the world.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.