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The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but read more
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our ow.
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.
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your read more
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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.