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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any read more
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.
Memories last forever, never do they die, Friends stick together and never really say Goodbye.
Memories last forever, never do they die, Friends stick together and never really say Goodbye.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
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.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by read more
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
