The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.
Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Friendship requires great communication.
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul.
It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but not in visiting them too often.
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
