Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
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.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
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