A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who read more

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.

Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us read more

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are read more

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask read more

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.