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

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

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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

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

There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.

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

No real friendship without absolute liberty.

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

Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.

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

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

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