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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the ...more

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Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into un...more

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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

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Leave this touching and clawing. Let him be to me a spirit. A message, a thought, a sincerity, a glance from him, I want, but not news nor pottage. I ...more

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The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path.

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In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone. In good company, the individual...more

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No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.

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The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.

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Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brot...more

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As many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation, and no longer strangers and pilgr...more

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.