We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend….

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies..

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages..

My only politics have been friendship..

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it..

I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I….

A sudden thought strikes me,-let us swear an eternal friendship..

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience..

What a thing friendship is - World without end..

Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that the….

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing..

That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes ….

Keep your friendships in repair..

Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals..

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation..

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow..

We don't choose what's going to wake us up..

Forgiveness frees the forgiver..

You don't need to be a star to be a bright and shining one to that friend in need..

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses..

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced..