Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enmity.
I don’t suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don’t trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It’s a sure sign that they don’t really know anyone.
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.
Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
Friends are born, not made.
Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.
Every day Wilbur would stand and look at the torn, empty web, and a lump would come to his throat. No one had ever had such a friend – so affectionate, so loyal, and so skillful.
Above all, don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be sincere with them.
A woman can only become a man’s friend after having first been his acquaintance and then his beloved — then she becomes his friend.[Женщина может быть другом мужчины лишь в такой последовательности: сначала приятель, потом любовница, а затем уж друг.]
A good author possesses not only his own intellect, but also that of his friends.