In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you read more

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

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

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

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, read more

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will b.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Friendship demands the ability to do without it.

Friendship demands the ability to do without it.

Lovers face to face, friends side by side.

Lovers face to face, friends side by side.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, read more

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -George Eliot.