Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

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

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

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

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.