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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

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

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