A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.