“What is a friend? I will tell you, it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.”
“'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.”
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
“Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.”
“But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.”
“Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.”
“The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.”
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
“Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.”
“You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...”
“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.”
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
“If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.”
“If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.”
“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.”
“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.”
“True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
“We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.”
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.”
“In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.”
“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.”
“Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.”
“Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.”
“The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.”
“A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.”
“Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.”
“As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.”
“Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.”
“To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''”