The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes."

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions.

Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.

There are good ships, and there are bad ships, but the best ships are friendships.

There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,—or enemies,—or to associations or to poor southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those between people who love the same books.

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

"A friend is someone who reaches out for your hand...and touches your heart."

There are three types of friends: those like food, without which you can’t live; those like medicine, which you need occasionally; and those like an illness, which you never want.

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

There are times when we have had enough even of our friends.