Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

If you can find a group of women, any age, who are supportive and kind and love you, that's the best. I have a group of girlfriends that I would lay in front of a bus for. They've picked me up through really, really bad times and I can definitely say I've done the same for them.

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes.

If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.

That's what friends do - support each other as best that they can no matter the circumstances.

It takes effort to be a real friend and to find a true friend.

Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

The one thing I've learned about friends is that the good ones are rare.

A friend in need is a pest.

The best proof of love is trust.