Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.'

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.'

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten
before the duties of friendship can read more

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten
before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
[Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut
amicitia munus expletum sit.]

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

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.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -David Tyson Gentry.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -David Tyson Gentry.

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.

Friendship demands the ability to do without it.

Friendship demands the ability to do without it.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet
never really meet; and two others at read more

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet
never really meet; and two others at first speech are old
friends.