Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.

Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.

There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.

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

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