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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

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

No real friendship without absolute liberty.