Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a read more

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

... 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.

There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they're always there.

Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they're always there.

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.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments read more

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

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.

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.

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any read more

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.