Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.
In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.
Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.
Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.
We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to have you reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great things from Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as in spiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact and skill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will be given you.
Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.
If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.
Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others.
Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.
like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.
Until you have hunted men, you haven’t hunted yet.
Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.