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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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

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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.