“Agreement in likes and dislikes—this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.”

“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.”

“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”

“The nature of man is such that he tends to believe what he wants to believe. Whether it is true or not usually provides only a brief hesitation. Men believe on the basis of their likes and dislikes. Unfortunately, much of what we believe to be true may be partially true. Absolute truth or absolute falsehood is rare. A total falsehood is easier to detect than a partial falsehood. Even a total truth is totally true only in context.”

“Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself”

“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.”

“I wish that I could save myself constant repetition by printing across the dog's-ear place of these pages the warning, "Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.””

“The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.”

“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.”

“I don't care what the editor likes or dislikes, I care what the people like.”