Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand.
The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.
I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while we boast to the others. -Logan Pearsall Smith No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality.
To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few ... if you are lucky.
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
Friends and wine should be old.
Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him; a new friend is as new wine.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
The best mirror is an old friend.
