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.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.

Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I thought I was the read more

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.'

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried,
"Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!"
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We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried,
"Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!"
Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast!
What man can look on Death unterrified?

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to read more

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.