Civility Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what…

— Henry David Thoreau

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

— Anonymous

No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and…

— Owen Feltham

In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

— Aeschylus

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable…

— Charles Dudley Warner

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about…

— Oscar Wilde

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

— Mencius

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

— Anonymous

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

— John Lubbock

A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.

— Clarence H. Burns

“As for myself, I can only exhort you to look on Friendship as the most valuable of all human possessions, no other being equally…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton