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 like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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.

Friends are treasures.

Friends are treasures.

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it read more

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

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.

... 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.

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; read more

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.