People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your read more

People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.

The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has severest read more

The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has severest virtue for its basis,
And such a friendship ends not but with life.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take read more

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have
despised!

What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have
despised!

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Stay with those who make you feel good by thinking about them.

Stay with those who make you feel good by thinking about them.

There is no friendship in trade.

There is no friendship in trade.

A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.

A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.

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.