He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but not in visiting them too often.

A hedge between keeps friendships green.

Love your friend with his fault.

We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

One enemy is too many; a hundred friends too few.

I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself."

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.