1) "It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them."
2) "If it is abuse - why one is always sure to here of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!"
3) "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
4) "True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. "
5) "I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination. "
6) "It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
7) "Always set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."
8) "Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. "
9) "To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship."
10) "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
5) "I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination. "
6) "It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
7) "Always set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."
8) "Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. "
9) "To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship."
10) "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
12) "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"
13) "Anybody can sympathies with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathies with a friend's success."
14) "Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade."
15) "Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
16) "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
17) "Never injure a friend, even in jest."
18) "When true friends meet in adverse hour; this likes a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen, the darkly closing clouds between."
19) "... No man is useless while he has a friend."
20) "Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."
21) "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
22) "Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
23) "Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
24) "The best mirror is an old friend."
25) "With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world."
