There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends, but he grieveth the less.
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
I have come to esteem history as a component of friendships. In my case at least friendships are not igneous but sedimentary.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
The friend of my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.
1 loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.
In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired, whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord.
There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.
Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
