Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.
A hedge between keeps friendships green.
Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
My friend and I have built a wall Between us thick and wide: The stones of it are laid in scorn And plastered high with pride.
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.
Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little; we are all so constituted by nature that no one can possibly entirely approve of us.
Love your friend with his fault.
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him ... two.
Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
To be social is to be forgiving.
