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.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments read more

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

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.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

... 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.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always read more

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

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.