The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.
He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.
Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him.
My friend is one. . . who take me for what I am.
I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.
There are no friends; only moments of friendship.
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.
It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.
Female friendships are of rapid growth.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
A road to a friend's house is never long.
Say what you mean to do. . . and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one. . . you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.
But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see
I was lost til you were found, but I never knew how far down I was falling before I reached the bottom.
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
