A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to read more

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts read more

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value read more

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.

Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in
their death they were not divided: they read more

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in
their death they were not divided: they were swifter than
eagles, they were stronger than lions.

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.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.