Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

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

True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.

Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.

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

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.

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

I am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.