“Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.”
“Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.”
“Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.”
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.”
“What is a friend? I will tell you, it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.”
“'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.”
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
“Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.”
“But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.”
“Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.”
“The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.”
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
“Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.”
“You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...”
“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.”
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
“If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.”
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
“If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.”
“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.”
“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.”
“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.”
“True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
“We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.”
“Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.”
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.”
“In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.”
“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.”