“You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”
“A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.”
“It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.”
“It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.”
“I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.”
“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
“Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.”
“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.”
“The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.”
“Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.”
“Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.”
“These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.”
“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”
“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.”
“A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.”
“I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses”
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”
“So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”
“Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!”
“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”
“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
“Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.”
“A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.”
“If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.”
“All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.”
“For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.”
“A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.”
“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”