I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
