“It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.”
“No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.”
“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”
“A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends”
“...a really good friend, the kind of friend who - when they were together both of them were more able to be who they really were.”
“There is one thing better than making a new friend,and that is keeping a old one.”