Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.