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!

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. read more

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't read more

We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness read more

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the
taper of conwiviality, and read more

What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the
taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a
feather?

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other, however it blow.

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other, however it blow.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does read more

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.