There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. 2.09K
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. 622
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. 702
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. 637
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of. 625
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? 624
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. 816
