Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because read more

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness read more

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that read more

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him read more

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. -Benjamin Disraeli.

A friend is a second self.

A friend is a second self.

I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best read more

I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.