 It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |
| Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |
| Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |
| The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |
| Friendships are discovered rather than made. Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. Author: Charles Kingsley |
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| It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, can never know what true friendship means. Author: Charles Kingsley |
| There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. Author: Francis Bacon |
| When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. Author: Francis Bacon |
| The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. Author: Francis Bacon |
| That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. Author: Francis Quarles |
| A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. Be who you are and be that well. Author: Francis de Sales |
