Friend

Famous quotes containing the word friend:

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people—the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism—it is mere fetish.... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.”
—George Borrow (1803–1881)

“My Friend is not of some other race or family of men, but flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone. He is my real brother.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)