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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

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

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.