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

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

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.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

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.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it read more

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.