To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.

To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. read more

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a read more

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me read more

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

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.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.