The road to a friend's house is never long.

The road to a friend's house is never long.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior read more

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is read more

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by read more

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think read more

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

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.