There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
Friendship is more important than truth.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.