It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.