It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Friendships are discovered rather than made.