To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.

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Art is an attempt to integrate evil. - Simone de Beauvoir

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself ― C.S. Lewis

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Happy is the house that shelters a friend. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.

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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . . — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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