Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. read more

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

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.

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, read more

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

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.

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.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and read more

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.