Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one read more

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of read more

I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value read more

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that read more

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.