In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

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

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

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

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

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.