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 one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

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