... 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.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the read more

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.

A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.

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.

I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you read more

I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take, I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes.

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.