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 should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
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.
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.
Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.
Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.
The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.
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