Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.

A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.

Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.

One’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.

A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.

In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.

Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.

I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.

Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.