Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to read more

To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth.
With friends there is not such a word as debt:
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Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth.
With friends there is not such a word as debt:
Where amity is ty'd with band of truth,
All benefits are there in common set.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands read more

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend read more

To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.