"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.












The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
More Henry David Thoreau quotes
"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
"There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
"There is not so good an understanding between any two but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in ...
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
"The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
"For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak, But only thinks and does; Though surely out 'twill leak Without the help of Greek, Or any tongue.
"There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no t...