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.

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.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

The road to a friend's house is never long.

The road to a friend's house is never long.

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.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of read more

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.