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

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

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

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