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

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

Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his
friend.

Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his
friend.

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if
we are to be real friends.

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if
we are to be real friends.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

A person that knows you for who you are exactly, a person that accepts what you have become and never read more

A person that knows you for who you are exactly, a person that accepts what you have become and never judges you, and allows for you to grow and helps you along the way is a friend that you should keep around for a lifetime.

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.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he read more

The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.