When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. 645
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. 707
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. 2.1K
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. 1.74K
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. 629
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. 710
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of. 631
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. 2.48K
