“The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.”
“Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.”
“Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
“Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?”
“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”
“Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.”
“Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.”
“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”
“Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”
“Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.”
“Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.”
“I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.”
“Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.”
“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”
“Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.”
“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”
“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.”
“To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.”
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
“Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.”
“I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.”
“My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.”
“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
“In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.”
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”
“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -”
“Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.”
“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”
“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.”
“Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”