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

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

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

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

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

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

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.