When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up read more

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

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.

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.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

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.