The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.
Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.
The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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