Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

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.

I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you read more

I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take, I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest read more

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

To the world you are just one person, but to one person you could mean the world.

To the world you are just one person, but to one person you could mean the world.

Friendship can sometimes end in love, but love in friendship, never.

Friendship can sometimes end in love, but love in friendship, never.