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

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.