Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
One enemy is too many; a hundred friends too few.
Friends come and go, enemies linger.
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.
It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.
However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random, write to one, dine with one, visit one, or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.
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.
Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.
It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.
