Ah! were I sever'd from thy side,
Where were thy friend and who my guide?
Years have read more

Ah! were I sever'd from thy side,
Where were thy friend and who my guide?
Years have not seen, Time shall not see
The hour that tears my soul from thee.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend
sincere enough to tell him disagreeable read more

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend
sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is read more

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask read more

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.

It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.