A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his true friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the greatest highroad to his reason, and which when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment

No small part of the cruelty, oppression, miscalculation, and general mismanagement of human relations is due to the fact that in our dealings with others we do not see them as persons at all, but only as specimens or representatives of some type or other. We react to the sample instead of to the real

There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

I am gratified when a friend slaps me on the back and tells me I’m a fine fellow, but I do a little resent it when with his other hand he picks my pocket.

If birds of a feather flock together, they don’t learn enough.

The fire which burned the forest Became the companion of the wind. But just as the wind extinguished the fire, The weak man loses his friends.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.