The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
All the literati keep An imaginary friend.
Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.
Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
I guess a man's best friend is his mother.
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.
Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.
The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
