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When you are at your best everybody can be your friend, but when you are at your worst only the read more
When you are at your best everybody can be your friend, but when you are at your worst only the true ones stay.
We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is read more
We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.
My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
 Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their 
friendship; and when they hear us praised read more 
 Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their 
friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe 
it to sinister and interested motives if they can. 
 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is 
a friend that sticketh closer than a read more 
 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is 
a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. 
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same read more
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.