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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.
A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think read more
A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me read more
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
