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

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

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

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

I have often said that if I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.

Friends are ourselves.

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

Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.

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

He who has nothing has no friends.

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

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