A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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