You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that read more

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to read more

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

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.

Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth.
With friends there is not such a word as debt:
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Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth.
With friends there is not such a word as debt:
Where amity is ty'd with band of truth,
All benefits are there in common set.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can read more

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.