We must be our own before we can be another's.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
A friend is the hope of the heart.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.
I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.
Treat your friend as a spectacle.
For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.
A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.
O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.
Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.
I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.
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