In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend..

Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly..

The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like ….

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor..

I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she ….

Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence..

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of y….

Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies ma….

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships..

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicit….

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship..

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read..

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no….

A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of po….

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance..

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend..

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might th….

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private..

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them..

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one..

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for..