I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that read more

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

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.

Hand
Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
And great hearts expand
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Hand
Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
And great hearts expand
And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other, however it blow.

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other, however it blow.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair;
for that the rains might rust, read more

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair;
for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.
- George Bancroft,

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are read more

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.